Methodism  and  Literature: 


SERIES  OF  ARTICLES  FROM  SEVERAL  WRITERS 
ON  THE  LITERARY  ENTERPRISE  AND 
ACHIEVEMENTS 


Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 


F.  A.  ARCHIBALD,  D.  D. 


WITH  A 


CATALOGUE  OF  SELECT  BOOKS  FOR  THE  HOME,  THE 
CHURCH,  AND  THE  SUNDAY-SCHOOL. 


CINCINNATI : 

WALDEN  AND  STOWE. 

NEW  YORK:  PHILLIPS  &  HUNT. 
I883. 


Copyright  by 
WALDEN  &  STOWE, 
1882. 


PREFACE. 


This  book  is  believed  to  be  a  demand  of  the 
times,  and  especially  in  the  denomination  whence  it 
emanates.  Among  the  numerous  agencies  which 
Methodism  has  employed  in  her  evangelizing  labors, 
none  has  been  more  potent  than  the  printing-press. 
This  instrumentality  was  early  recognized  by  the 
founders  of  the  Church,  who  wisely  took  measures 
for  its  growth  and  perpetuity,  and  "  builded  better 
than  they  knew."  With  them  a  prime  object  was  to 
create  and  foster  a  taste  for  reading,  and  to  regulate 
the  cost  of  literature,  so  that  it  might  be  brought 
within  the  reach  of  the  great  masses  to  whom  they 
preached.  Methodism  was,  indeed,  the  pioneer  of 
cheap  religious  reading,  organizing  a  system  of  col- 
portage  before  the  term  colporteur  had  been  engrafted 
upon  our  Saxon  stock. 

Mr.  Wesley  wrote  books  for  the  million,  and  sold 
them  at  rates  which  astonished  the  book-makers  of 
his  day.  In  1782,  seventeen  years  prior  to  the  for- 
mation of  the  "  Religious  Tract  Society  of  London," 
he  organized,  in  connection  with  Dr.  Coke,  the  "  So- 
ciety for  the  Distribution  of  Religious  Tracts  among 
the  Poor;"  but  forty  years  before  that,  while  prose- 
cuting his  evangelical  work,  he  commenced  printing 
and  circulating  tracts,  and  was  the  first  to  use,  on  an 
extensive  scale,  this  means  of  popular  information. 


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Asbury  and  his  coadjutors  brought  the  same  spirit 
into  America,  and  planted  the  germ  of  the  present 
mammoth  Book  Concern,  which  has  steadily  grown 
from  its  earliest  implantation,  until  now  it  has 
amassed  a  body  of  literature  representing  all  phases 
of  matured  thought  in  the  fields  of  systematic  theol- 
ogy, moral  philosophy,  ecclesiastical  history,  religious 
biography,  and  Christian  experience,  and  presenting 
to  the  world  thoroughly  digested  systems,  well-matured 
suggestions,  and  all  needful  appliances  for  the  work 
of  evangelization.  The  New  York  Evangelist,  in  re- 
ferring to  its  purely  Methodistic  publications,  says: 
"No  religious  body  in  this  country  can  present,  we 
believe,  so  various  and  extensive  a  collection  of  de- 
nominational literature  as  the  Methodist  Church." 

That  this  work  of  the  Church  may  be  brought  to 
the  thoughtful  notice  of  the  public,  and  that  its  com- 
pleteness, adaptation,  and  due  importance  may  be 
presented  in  a  befitting  and  permanent  form,  the 
papers  that  constitute  the  body  of  this  book  have 
been  carefully  prepared;  and  the  reader  who  shall 
give  them  a  proper  consideration  will  doubtless  arise 
from  their  perusal  as  fully  convinced  as  the  editor 
hereof  that  the  publication  is  not  only  timely  but 
necessary.  Nearly  every  phase  of  Methodism  in  lit- 
erature has  here  a  comprehensive  treatment,  and  the 
different  fields  have  been  so  fully  explored  as  to  ren- 
der a  formal  introduction  almost  unnecessary. 

These  papers  begin,  very  appropriately,  with  the 
subject,  "  A  Reading  Church."  The  necessity  for 
general  information  and  mental  culture  is  as  true 
to-day  as  when  Wesley,  in  his  declining  years,  imbued 


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with  deep  solicitude  for  the  permanence  of  the  socie- 
ties he  had  raised  up,  wrote  these  words :  "  It  can  not 
be  that  the  people  should  grow  in  grace,  unless  they 
give  themselves  to  reading.  A  reading  people  will 
always  be  a  knowing  people.  A  people  who  talk 
much  will  know  little.  Press  this  upon  them  with 
your  might,  and  you  will  soon  see  the  fruit  of  your 
labors."  If  Mr.  Wesley  regarded  the  neglect  of 
reading  in  his  time  a  serious  hindcrance  to  Methodist 
progress,  how  much  greater  does  the  impediment  ap- 
pear when  viewed  in  the  light  of  a  reading  age ! 

The  "  Book  Concern  w  itself,  the  reservoir  and  the 
conservator  of  the  Church's  best  thoughts,  as  well  as 
the  medium  whence  they  flow  out  to  vivify  and  serve 
mankind,  has  its  appropriate  recognition  in  these 
pages,  and  is  immediately  followed  by  subjects  of 
grave  importance  to  the  Church, — the  methods  for 
the  dissemination  of  our  literature,  and  the  duty  of 
the  Church  to  our  publishing  interests.  The  time 
was  when  every  itinerant  minister  was  ex-officio  a 
disseminator  of  the  Church's  literature;  but  the  im- 
mediate and  pressing  cares  of  the  pastorate,  which 
have  multiplied  as  the  spheres  of  labor  have  become 
contracted  and  the  Churches  have  increased  in  mem- 
bership, have  been  accepted,  in  many  cases,  as  a 
release  from  what  the  fathers  deemed  an  obligation ; 
but  it  must  be  admitted  that  the  duty,  in  some  form 
or  other,  still  remains.  To  the  consideration  of  these 
subjects  the  attention  of  the  Church  is  now  invited, 
and  a  proper  discussion  of  the  duties  of  all  interested 
can  not  but  result  in  good. 

The  three  papers  which  follow  direct  the  attention 


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to  a  vital  issue  now  forced  upon  the  attention  of  the 
Church  in  general,  and  which  must  be  answered 
speedily  if  disastrous  consequences  are  to  be  avoided. 
What  we  read,  and  what  we  should  read,  as  well  as 
the  pernicious  literature  and  novel-reading  of  the  day, 
open  up  questions  that  concern  the  patriot  as  well  as 
the  moral  philosopher;  and  the  prospect  that  rises  in 
the  future,  when  a  generation  of  youth  fed  upon  the 
husks,  and  worse  than  husks,  of  much  of  the  popular 
literature  of  the  present,  shall  come  upon  the  stage 
of  action,  is  appalling  to  every  philanthropist.  Some 
of  the  fruit  has  already  matured,  as  an  examination 
of  these  papers  and  the  criminal  records  of  the  coun- 
try will  amply  show.  Recent  statistics  disclose  the 
alarming  fact  that  not  only  in  the  large  cities,  but  in 
the  country  places  as  well,  nearly  one-fourth  of  those 
arrested  for  crime  of  all  grades  are  boys  and  girls 
between  the  ages  of  twelve  and  twenty.  A  secular 
newspaper,  in  discussing  the  subject,  says :  u  That 
which  has  led  many  of  these  young  persons  into  their 
unfortunate  condition  is  the  obscene  literature  so  gen- 
erally read  by  the  young  people  of  this  country." 
This  is  the  crying  evil  of  modern  society.  It  is 
sapping  the  foundations  of  virtuous  liberty.  There 
is  no  concealing  the  truth  uttered  by  the  papers  in 
this  book.  If  the  Church  is  to  grow  up  a  healthful, 
influential,  and  permanent  institution,  with  its  mem- 
bership fully  equipped  in  the  brain  and  heart,  it  must 
press  out  its  literature  everywhere,  and  seek  to  coun- 
teract the  streams  of  death  that  are  deluging  the  land. 

The  biographical  and  historical  literature  of 
Methodism,  as  will  be  seen  by  reference  to  the  articles 


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on  these  subjects,  are  by  no  means  meager.  It  has 
been  thought  by  some  that  our  publishers  have  gone 
to  an  extreme  in  biographical  publications ;  but  these 
are  the  materials  out  of  which  history  is  made,  and 
there  seems  to  be  a  satisfactory  and  sufficient  reason 
for  every  book  of  this  character.  The  most  ancient 
book  in  the  possession  of  mankind,  the  Genesis  of 
Moses,  has  recorded  for  all  time  a  series  of  biograph- 
ical memoirs,  and  upon  the  Christian  Church  the  duty 
is  enjoined  by  an  express  command  to  "remember 
them  who  have  spoken  to  us  the  word  of  God,"  and 
to  imitate  their  faith.  A  learned  author  of  one  of 
the  biographies  of  Methodism  says :  "  The  providence 
and  grace  of  God  have,  from  age  to  age,  raised  up 
men  whose  lives  should  be  a  beacon  of  hope  to  them 
who  come  after.  'A  true  intellect  stands  like  a 
watch-tower  upon  the  shore/  The  waves  thunder 
against  it,  and  vanish  in  spray.  Its  clear  and  steady 
lamp  burns  in  the  storm — a  consolation  and  a  guide, 
over  the  dark  sea,  to  the  haven  of  glory." 

The  paper  on  the  "  Literature  of  Bible  Study  "  is 
not  intended  to  be  exhaustive  of  the  subject.  Such 
books  as  Wiseman's  "Sketches  from  the  Book  of 
Judges,"  which  Spurgeon  places  among  the  comment- 
aries, and  says  is  written  "  in  a  powerful  style,"  have 
not  always  been  introduced,  although  they  might  ap- 
propriately find  a  place  in  this  department. 

In  the  "  Literature  of  Sacred  Song "  we  reach  a 
subject  vital  to  the  success  of  the  Church  in  the  past 
as  well  as  the  present.  The  first  Wesleyan  hymn- 
book  was  published  in  1738.  It  contains  seventy 
hymns,  twenty-seven  of  which  are  by  Dr.  Watts. 


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PREFACE. 


A  number  of  other  hymn-books  were  issued  by  the 
two  Wesleys  up  to  the  year  1779,  when  the  standard 
hymn-book  was  published  by  subscription.  Seven 
editions  of  it  appeared  in  John  Wesley's  life-time. 
He  had  taken  immense  pains  with  it,  selecting  the 
materials  with  care,  methodizing  them  with  charac- 
teristic exactness,  and  transcribing  it  with  his  own 
hand.  It  was  his  last  great  work — a  bequest  of  ines- 
timable value  to  the  Methodist  societies  and  to  the 
Christian  Church  at  large,  almost  all  the  denomina- 
tions in  England  and  in  this  country,  both  in  and 
out  of  the  national  establishment,  having  availed 
themselves  of  it  in  their  various  hymn-books  to  a 
greater  or  less  extent.  That  acute  and  captious  critic, 
Isaac  Taylor,  has  said  of  the  hymns  of  Methodism : 
"  It  may  be  affirmed  that  there  is  no  principal  ele- 
ment of  Christianity,  no  main  article  of  belief  as  ex- 
pressed by  Protestant  Churches,  that  there  is  no  moral 
or  ethical  sentiment  peculiarly  characteristic  of  the 
Gospel,  no  height  or  depth  of  feeling  proper  to  the 
spiritual  life,  that  does  not  find  itself,  emphatically 
and  pointedly  and  clearly,  stated  in  some  stanza  of 
Charles  Wesley's  hymns."  This  is  the  heritage  which 
Methodism  has  had  bequeathed  to  her,  and  which  she 
is  asked  to  cherish  and  sanctify  to  the  glory  of  God. 

In  the  field  of  books  and  benevolence  we  enter 
upon  a  subject  which  we  do  well  to  ponder.  Our 
material  resources,  which  have  grown  with  our  growth, 
are  to  be  consecrated  to  the  advancement  of  truth  ; 
and  the  issue  is  now  upon  us.  A  systematic  method 
of  giving  the  Church  has  always  pleaded  for;  and 
something  is  now  demanded  which  will  not  lessen  our 


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benefactions  in  the  older  directions,  but  will  superadd 
to  them  the  newer  demands  arising  out  of  our  altered 
circumstances.  The  establishment  and  endowment  of 
libraries  in  our  Churches  are  duties  clearly  pointed 
out  by  the  requirements  of  the  times. 

No  essential  part  of  the  cardinal  doctrines  of  the 
Church  has  been  overlooked  by  those  who  have  had 
the  care  of  the  publishing  interests.  Even  in  regard 
to  the  teachings  of  the  Church  with  respect  to  a 
higher  Christian  life,  which  some  have  thought  re- 
quired separate  establishments  for  their  exclusive 
publication,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  literature  on  the 
subject  is  ample  and  of  no  uncertain  sound.  The 
authorized  agents  of  the  Book  Concerns  have  done 
their  work  so  thoroughly,  and  the  doctrines  of  the 
Church  have  been  so  clearly  enunciated,  that  the  sup- 
plementary efforts  resorted  to  appear,  if  not  superflu- 
ous, certainly  not  so  absolute  a  necessity  as  to  demand 
a  resort  to  such  extraordinary  measures. 

But  it  is  no  part  of  our  purpose  to  attempt  an 
analysis  of  the  book  now  in  the  reader's  hands. 
That  can  only  be  had  by  its  full  perusal.  That  it  is 
a  unity  in  every  minutia  is  not  claimed.  Writing 
on  such  kindred  subjects,  and  without  opportunity 
for  previous  consultation,  if  such  a  thing  were  desira- 
ble or  possible,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  the 
writers  should  occasionally  cross  each  other's  paths, 
or  even  give  utterance  to  some  slight  differences  of 
opinion.  But  if  the  latter  is  true,  it  is  true  only  in 
matters  of  non-essential  import;  while,  on  the  other 
hand,  the  agreement  is  so  hearty  and  emphatic  as  to 
furnish  a  proof  that  the  Church  is  in  essential  har- 


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mony  as  to  the  baleful  effects  of  much  of  the  popular 
literature  of  the  period,  and  that  to  counteract  that 
influence  a  loud  and  urgent  call  is  made  for  the 
diffusion  of  healthful  spiritual  reading  matter,  such  as 
the  publications  which  Methodism  has  always  given 
to  the  world. 

The  extensive  catalogue  of  books  which  follows 
these  papers  has  been  prepared  with  great  care.  The 
aim  of  the  editor  has  been  to  assist  our  Christian 
people  in  making  choice  of  the  most  safe  and  valua- 
ble books  in  the  various  departments  of  literature, 
from  which  libraries  may  be  selected  for  the  home, 
the  Church,  and  the  Sabbath-school. 


CONTENTS. 


I.  A  READING  CHURCH,  15 

Rev.  J.  S.  Broadwell,  Mansfield,  0. 

II.  THE  METHODIST  BOOK  CONCERN,  19 

Sanford  Hunt,  D.  D.,  New  York. 

III.  CIRCULATION  OF  OUR  LITERATURE,  28 

John  M.  Walden,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Cincinnati. 

IV.  WHY  METHODISM  PRINTS,  49 

Arthur  Edwards,  D.  D.,  Chicago. 

V.  WHAT  WE  READ  AND  WHAT  WE  SHOULD 

READ,  57 

Rev.  N.  B.  C.  Love,  Central  Ohio  Conference. 

VI.  PERNICIOUS  LITERATURE,  64 

James  M.  Freeman,  D.  D.,  New  York. 

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VII.  THE  EVILS  OF  INDISCRIMINATE  NOVEL- 
READING,  69 

Ross  C.  Houghton,  D.  D.,  Indianapolis. 

VIII.  METHODIST  BIOGRAPHICAL  LITERATURE,  .  81 
W.  B.  W atkins,  D.  D.,  Pittsburgh. 


IX.  HISTORICAL  LITERATURE  OF  METHODISM,  .  125 
Francis  S.  Hoyt,  D.  D.,  Cincinnati. 

X.  THE  LITERATURE  OF  SACRED  SONG,  139 

F.  D.  Hemenway,  D.  D.,  Evanston,  111. 


12  CONTENTS. 

PAGE. 


XI.  THE  LITERATURE  OF  BIBLE  STUDY,  ....  149 
Editorial. 

XII.  THEOLOGICAL  AND  DOCTRINAL  LITERA- 
TURE,  164 

Editorial. 

XIII.  BOOKS  AND  BENEVOLENCE,  178 

Charles  H.  Fowler,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  New  York. 

XIV.  CHURCH  LITERATURE  AND  EDUCATIONAL 

'      WORK,  181 

Mrs.  Alexander  Martin,  Greencastle,  Ind. 

XV.  THE  TRACT  SOCIETY :  ITS  ORIGIN,  AIMS, 

LITERATURE,  AND  POSSIBILITIES,  .....  188 
Rev.  Thomas  Stalker,  Port  Huron,  Mich. 

XVI.  OUR  SUNDAY-SCHOOL  LESSON  HELPS,  ...  199 
Rev.  Newell  S.  Albright,  A.M.,  Wooster,  0. 

XVII.  THE  IDEAL  SUNDAY-SCHOOL  LIBRARY,  .  .  204 
Daniel  Wise,  D.  D.,  Englewood,  New  Jersey. 

XVIII.  RELIGIOUS  NEWSPAPERS,  214 

Editorial. 

XIX.  THE  CHURCH  LYCEUM,  218 

Bishop  Henry  W.  Warren,  D.  D.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

XX.  RELATION  OF  OUR  CHURCH  LITERATURE 

TO  THE  TEMPERANCE  WORK,  221 

Mrs.  Sarepta  M.  I.  Henry,  Evanston,  111. 

XXI.  LITERATURE  AND  ITS  RELATION  TO  THE 

MORAL  NATURE,  231 

William  W.  Ramsay,  D.  D.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

XXII.  OUR  LITERATURE  AS  A  SOCIAL  FORCE  IN 

THE  CHURCH,  244 

John  Atkinson,  D.  D.,  Adrian,  Mich. 


CONTENTS.  13 

PAGE. 

XXIII.  LITERATURE  OF  THE  HIGHER  CHRISTIAN 
LIFE,  250 

J.  Alabaster,  D.  D.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

XXIV.  OUR  LITERATURE  AS  AN  EVANGELISTIC 
AGENCY,  203 

Rev.  Samuel  A.  Keen,  M.  A.,  Ohio  Conference. 

XXV.  A  PLAN  FOR  ORGANIZING  A  CHURCH 

LIBRARY,  269 

Editorial. 


CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS,  .  . 
MISSIONARY  LITERATURE, 
INDEX  OF  AUTHORS, .  .  .  . 


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409 
417 


Methodism  and  Literature. 


i. 

A  READING  CHURCH. 

Christianity  is  a  religion  appealing  to  the  reason. 
Wherever  it  goes,  thought  is  quickened,  literature  is  pat- 
ronized, inventive  genius  wins  victories,  and  brings  its 
products  to  the  world's  help.  Every  other  system  of  re- 
ligion is  overwhelmed  by  science  and  investigation.  The 
inventions  and  discoveries  that  have  been  brought  to  light 
in  the  luminous  pathway  of  Christ's  kingdom,  a  kingdom 
that  shines  more  and  more  unto  the  perfect  day,  would 
drive  every  other  system  to  the  wall. 

But  though  the  prophecy  of  doubt  has  assigned  the 
religion  of  Jesus  to  the  same  doom,  yet  Christianity  has 
taken,  and  continues  to  take,  the  results  of  genius  and 
thought  for  her  own  benefit. 

The  Christian  should  never  be  afraid  of  truth ;  and  to 
read  and  study  should  be  as  much  a  sacred  duty  as  to 
pray  and  testify  for  his  Master.  To  do  this  he  must  study 
economy  both  as  to  means  and  time  ;  but  he  is  the  child 
of  an  economist  who,  though  a  king,  suffers  nothing  to  go 
to  waste,  and  who,  though  he  owns  a  universe,  gathers 
and  preserves  every  thing,  so  that  not  an  atom  is  lost. 
He  must  practice  self-denial  both  as  to  his  appetites  and 
his  adornings,  if  he  would  fit  himself  for  usefulness  in  the 
Christ-life.  But  he  may  remember,  for  his  comfort,  that 
he  whose  servant  he  is  counted  not  his  own  life  dear  unto 
him,  but  whose  joy  was  to  do  his  Father's  will ;  and  then 


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let  him  remember  that  the  disciple  is  not  above  his  Master 
or  the  servant  above  his  Lord. 

The  Christian  thus  seeking  for  truth  and  usefulness 
will  be  prepared  against  surprises  and  bold  assaults  of  the 
enemies  of  his  Lord.  Knowing  the  armory  of  truth, 
familiar  with  its  weapons,  he  will  be  able  to  repel  or  hold 
in  check  every  attempt  of  unbelief  to  shake  his  confidence. 
He  will  not  be  discouraged  when  ignorant  followers  be- 
come faint-hearted  and  ready  to  retreat.  His  well-supplied 
arsenal  will,  by  the  Spirit's  help  and  the  light  of  the  Word, 
make  him  ready  to  endure  hardness  as  a  good  soldier. 

A  well-informed  Christian  is  not  at  all  likely  to  desert 
his  standard ;  for  he  has  read  of  the  triumphs  of  that  vast 
army  of  whom  the  world  was  not  worthy.  He  has  marked 
the  miracle  of  the  Church's  progress  in  the  past;  he  has 
read  of  her  triumphs  in  the  last  half  century,  and  watches 
with  a  lively  interest  her  victories  to-day,  as  she  plan3 
broadly  and  intelligently  for  the  conquest  of  the  world. 

In  Christianity  he  sees  a  religion  that  unites  in  itself 
all  that  is  of  good  report  in  the  various  systems  of  the 
ethnic  religions,  and,  looking  beyond  the  letter  of  the 
Word,  he  sees  in  its  great  and  pure  spirit,  the  manifested 
truth  of  God .  Thus  looking  at  the  Bible,  it  is  always  for 
him  a  vase  of  most  precious  perfume,  a  casket  of  priceless 
pearls,  a  mine  of  inexhaustible  wealth,  a  fountain  of 
purest  waters,  a  sun  of  surpassing  brightness,  an  ocean 
of  glory ;  indeed,  a  universe  in  itself ;  for  all  other  treas- 
ures are  indicated  in  it,  and  all  other  streams  of  thought 
and  power  and  civilization  flow  to  it  and  from  it.  There 
are  many  reasons  wThy  a  gathered  society  of  reading  Chris- 
tians may,  indeed  must,  be  a  power.  A  reading  Church 
will  make  an  intelligent  -ministry.  The  time  has  passed 
when,  if  it  ever  did,  the  Church  may  boast  of  its  inspired 
ignorance.  It  has  ever  been  an  error  to  defend  Christian- 
ity and  its  supernatural  character  and  divine  origin  by 
assuming  ignorance  and  lack  of  mental  power  in  the  early 


A  READING  CHURCH. 


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disciples,  apostles,  and  writers  of  the  primitive  Church. 
Who  shall  surpass  Paul  and  John,  Luke  and  Matthew, 
with  Mark,  in  massive  greatness,  in  beauty,  sublimity, 
simplicity,  and  strength  ?  They  need  no  defense ;  they 
were  worthy  of  any  age.  Their  honesty,  experience,  and 
inspiration  can  be  established  without  assuming  that  they 
were  without  ability  or  intelligence. 

That  God  has  used  the  unlettered  and  the  ignorant  is 
very  true ;  but  it  does  not  prove  that  he  would  have  his 
children  or  his  heralds  remain  in  ignorance.  He  can  use 
any  and  all  weapons,  any  and  all  kinds  of  material ;  but 
the  order  of  his  providence  has,  for  the  most  part,  chosen 
the  best ;  and  the  book  he  has  given  to  us  is  a  very  mine 
of  literary  and  philosophic  and  mental  wealth,  quickening 
the  thought,  and  stirring  the  heart  of  every  student. 

The  greatest  of  thoughts,  themes,  and  events  are  pre- 
sented in  the  simple  style  of  the  narrative,  or  clothed  in  the 
glowing  figures  of  poetry,  or  in  the  majesty  of  eloquence 
almost  unequaled.  And  a  man  or  woman  who  becomes  a 
student  of  that  Bible  as  he  or  she  ought  to  study  it,  will 
soon  want  to  know  more  of  those  other  volumes  of  the 
great  Author,  the  universe  and  the  soul.  The  minister 
who  would  preach  acceptably  to  a  reading  Church  must 
be  a  reading  minister. 

While  such  a  Church  would  not  be  captious  or  unkind, 
it  would  stimulate  and  appreciate  its  pastor,  and  would 
thus  become  the  means  and  somewhat  the  occasion  of  his 
development  and  growth.  To  preach  to  such  a  Church 
the  man  of  God  would  not  need  to  preach  philosophy  or 
science.  Such  preaching  would  not  meet  their  demands, 
while  other  lines  of  mere  sensationalism  would  not  answer. 
Having  studied  the  Bible  with  such  helps  as  they  have, 
they  recognize  it  as  the  all-containing  book  of  their  relig- 
ion, and  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Alpha  and  Omega  of  the 
book,  and  so  they  would  have  preached  Christ  and  him 
crucified. 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


A  reading  Church  will  be  a  believing  Church.  There 
is  a  condition  of  soul  that  sometimes  passes  for  faith,  but 
it  is  simply  enthusiasm.  An  abiding  faith  knows  in  what 
it  believes,  and  is  able  to  give  a  reason  for  its  existence. 
An  intelligent  faith  has  nothing  to  fear  from  rationalism. 
It  knows  that  the  religion  of  the  Gospels  is  no  cunningly 
devised  fable,  and,  founded  upon  the  rock  of  experience, 
it  remains  after  the  storm  is  past. 

A  reading  Church  will,  withouf  doubt,  be  a  benevolent 
Church.  This  needs  only  to  be  stated  to  gain  the  assent 
of  every  one  whose  observation  includes  such  a  Church. 
With  breadth  of  information  come  breadth  of  sympathy, 
largeness  of  soul,  a  reaching  out  for  the  ignorant,  needy, 
and  unsaved. 

So  that  we  may  safely  make  the  statement  that  they 
who  read  largely  give  largely.  But  in  all  this  we  are 
supposing  that  the  reading  Church  has  a  pure,  strong,  and 
helpful  literature,  adapted  to  the  cultivation  of  both  the 
intellectual  and  emotional  in  man,  and  that  there  is  a 
.purpose  to  use  the  knowledge  for  the  glory  of  the  great 
King. 

A  reading  Church  will  be  an  enterprising  and  pro- 
gressive Church.  With  eyes  wide  open,  she  will  see  the 
fields  white,  the  gates  ajar,  the  highways  being  cast  up, 
and  she  will  use  her  means  wisely  and  at  the  fortunate 
time,  entering  fields  of  usefulness,  and  planting  institutions 
of  learning,  missions  for  the  saving  of  the  masses,  building 
churches  for  the  needy,  and  scattering  a  pure  literature 
where  mental  and  moral  blindness  prevails. 

J.  S.  BRO  AD  WELL. 


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II. 

THE  METHODIST  BOOK  CONCERN. 

The  Methodist  Book  Concern  had  its  origin  in  the 
theory  that  a  Church  must  furnish  a  religious  literature 
for  its  people.  The  Church  must  not  only  be  devoted,  but 
to  secure  its  highest  good  and  usefulness  it  must  be  intel- 
ligent. This  intelligence  is  necessary  in  accomplishing  the 
work  assigned  it  by  Providence,  and  where  intelligence  has 
been  allied  to  vital  godliness,  Christianity  has  moved  for- 
ward with  the  steps  of  certitude. 

John  Wesley  early  recognized  the  potency  of  the  print- 
ing-press as  an  agency  in  the  work  of  evangelization,  and 
as  early  as  1739  began  the  work  of  publishing  religious 
literature.  From  the  beginning  of  his  work  in  England, 
he  was  an  author  and  a  publisher ;  first  the  tract,  then  the 
magazine,  and  afterward  the  stately  volume.  Notwithstand- 
ing the  constancy  of  his  travels  and  the  countless  sermons 
he  preached,  he  wrote  thirty-two  solid  volumes — which  have 
been  published — and  abridged  and  edited  one  hundred  and 
twenty  more.  His  preachers  were  pledged  to  circulate 
books  as  an  essential  part  of  their  work.  At  the  confer- 
ence of  1749,  arrangements  were  made  by  which  every 
circuit  was  to  be  supplied  with  books  by  the  assistant,  and 
every  society  was  to  provide  "a  private  room,"  and  also 
books  for  the  helper.  A  return  was  to  be  made  quarterly 
of  money  for  books  from  each  society,  and  thus,  says  Dr. 
Stevens,  ''began  that  organized  system  of  book  and  tract 
distribution  which  has  secured  to  Methodism  a  more  ex- 
tensive use  of  the  religious  press  than  can  be  found  in  any 
other  Protestant  denomination  of  our  day."    To  Wesley 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


must  not  only  be  ascribed  the  impetus  and  methods  in 
circulating  religious  literature,  but  to  him  also  must  be 
attributed  the  earliest  recognition  of  the  power  of  the 
press  as  an  auxiliary  to  the  work  of  preaching,  and  by  his 
example,  "the  first  to  apply  on  any  large  scale  this  im- 
portant means  of  usefulness  to  the '  reformation  of  the 
people." 

The  theory  which  brought  into  use  the  press  in  Mr. 
Wesley's  day  is  the  theory  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  to-day,  and  the  inspiration  of  her  publishing- 
houses.  The  mind  needs  instruction  and  fortification 
against  evil  every  day  and  hour.  Like  all  other  things, 
it  will  become  impaired ;  and  spiritual  truth  must  be  its 
food  and  nourishment.  As  parents  feed  their  children 
daily  in  order  to  secure  growth  and  maintain  health,  so 
the  Church  must  supply  the  reading  which  her  children 
demand. 

Under  this  conviction,  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
in  1789,  only  five  years  after  her  organization,  appointed 
Rev.  John  Dickins,  then  stationed  in  Philadelphia,  a  former 
student  of  the  celebrated  English  school  at  Eton,  as  the 
book  steward  or  agent.  With  a  capital  of  six  hundred 
dollars,  which  he  loaned  the  Concern,  he  laid  the  founda- 
tions of  our  publishing-house.  He  managed  the  business 
for  ten  years,  and  died  in  Philadelphia,  where  the  Book 
Concern  was  then  located,  leaving  an  enduring  monument 
of  his  sagacity. 

Previous  to  the  establishment  of  the  Book  Concern, 
various  works  of  Mr.  Wesley  had  been  republished  in  this 
country,  chiefly  by  the  ministers,  among  whom  was  Robert 
Williams,  who  realized  some  profits  from  the  publication 
of  a  number  of  Wesley's  sermons.  Benjamin  Franklin, 
whom  Mirabeau  called  "the  genius  which  had  freed 
America,"  reprinted  Mr.  Wesley's  Sermon  on  Free  Grace, 
and  gave  it, a  wide  circulation.  But  as  these  irregular 
publications  were  unsatisfactory  to  the  preachers,  a  more 


THE  METHODIST  BOOK  CONCERN.  21 


thorough  system  was  determined  upon,  which  has  devel- 
oped into  the  preseut  Book  Concern.  In  the  Discipline 
of  1787  the  following  record  occurs:  "As  it  has  been  fre- 
quently recommended  by  the  preachers  and  people  that 
such  books  as  are  wanted  be  printed  in  this  country,  we 
therefore  propose:  First,  that  the  advice  of  the  conference 
be  desired  concerning  any  valuable  impression,  and  their 
consent  be  obtained  before  any  steps  be  taken  for  the 
printing  thereof.  And,  second,  that  the  profits  of  the 
books,  after  all  necessary  expenses  are  defrayed,  shall  be 
applied,  according  to  the  direction  of  conference,  toward  the 
college,  the  preachers'  fund,  the  deficiencies  of  our  preach- 
ers, the  district  missions,  or  the  debts  of  our  Churches." 

The  first  book  printed  by  the  Methodist  Book  Concern 
gave  token  of  the  breadth  and  catholicity  of  the  spirit 
which  actuated  its  founders.  It  was  Thomas  h,  Kempis's 
"Imitation  of  Christ,"  translated  and  published  by  Mr. 
Wesley  in  England,  under  the  title  of  "The  Christian's 
Pattern."  This  work  which,  next  to  the  sacred  Scriptures, 
has  had  the  largest  number  of  readers  of  which  sacred  lit- 
erature, ancient  or  modern,  can  furnish  an  example,  al- 
though written  by  a  devout  Catholic,  had  had  an  important 
influence  on  the  mind  of  John  Wesley  and  on  the  origin 
of  Methodism,  and  is  still  not  only  in  the  catalogue  of 
Methodist  publications,  but  is  urged  upon  its  membership 
as  a  book  eminently  fitted  to  be  "in  the  hands  of  every 
Methodist."  Among  the  other  works  published  the  same 
year  were  Baxter's  "  Saints'  Everlasting  Rest,"  the  "Meth- 
odist Discipline,  a  hymn-book,  Mr.  Wesley's  "Primitive 
Physic,"  and  the  Arminian  Magazine.  The  following  was 
the  imprint  of  the  latter:  "Printed  in  Philadelphia  by 
Prichard  &  Hall,  in  Market  Street,  and  sold  by  John  Dick- 
ins,  in  Fourth  Street  (east  side),  near  the  corner  of  Race 
Street."  The  preface,  which  consists  of  an  address  to  the 
"  subscribers  for  the  Arminian  Magazine"  written  in  North 
Carolina  April  10,  1789,  and  signed  by  Thomas  Coke  and 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


Francis  Asbury,  contains  the  following  interesting  declara- 
tion:  "That  the  subscribers  may  not  purchase  polemical 
divinity  at  too  great  an  expense,  we  shall  insert  in  each 
number  an  original  sermon  on  subjects  curious,  critical,  in- 
teresting, and  elegant,  written  by  our  well-known  and 
much-respected  friend  John  Wesley  (all  of  them  since  he 
has  passed  the  age  of  seventy,  and  some  of  them  within 
the  last  year),  which  may  convince  those  who  are  ignorant 
of  him  that  he  is  not,  as  some  have  falsely  advanced,  in 
his  second  childhood ;  and  that  his  exercising  the  episcopal 
office  for  the  forming  of  our  Church  in  America  was  not 
the  fruit  of  infancy  in  him  or  in  us."  The  first  sermon  of 
Mr.  Wesley's,  perhaps,  ever  published  by  the  Book  Concern 
as  such  is  found  in  this  magazine,  and  is  founded  on  1 
Tim.,  6-9,  the  words  being,  "They  that  will  be  rich,  fall 
into  temptation  and  a  snare,"  etc. 

In  1799,  Ezekiel  Cooper  was  appointed  editor  and  gen- 
eral book  steward,  and  during  his  agency  (in  1804)  the 
business  was  removed  to  New  York.  He  resigned  in  1809, 
leaving  the  Concern  with  a  capital  of  a  hundred  and  forty- 
five  thousand  dollars,  the  net  earnings  of  nineteen  years. 
In  1808,  John  Wilson  was  elected  principal  agent,  and  the 
term  of  service  in  the  agency  was  limited  to  eight  years. 
Until  this  period  the  agents  were  regularly  stationed  as 
ministers,  but  from  this  time  forward  they  were  entirely 
released  from  pastoral  labors.  Mr.  Wilson  died  in  1810, 
and  the  assistant  agent,  Daniel  Hitt,  assumed  the  entire 
control,  and  was  elected  principal  agent  in  1812.  The 
Methodist  Magazine  was  commenced  in  1818,  but  after  the 
establishment  of  the  Christian  Advocate  in  1826,  it  was 
changed  to  the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review,  and  both  period- 
icals have  been  uninterruptedly  issued  ever  since. 

In  1820,  Rev.  Nathan  Bangs,  whose  name  was  for  many 
years  intimately  associated  with  Methodism  in  America,  was 
called  to  the  chief  agency  of  the  Book  Concern,  and  in- 
fused into  it  a  new  vitality.    He  published  "  Benson's 


THE  METHODIST  BOOK  CONCERN. 


23 


Commentary,"  a  work  which  has  met  with  a  large  circu- 
lation, and  also  published  a  revised  edition  of  the  Method- 
ist Hymn-book.  Up  to  1822  all  the  work  of  the  Book 
Concern  was  done  by  outside  parties,  but  during  that  year 
the  first  l)ook  was  bound  in  the  office  on  Crosby  Street. 
In  September,  1824,  the  agents  also  commenced  printing 
in  their  own  house. 

In  1832  it  became  evident  that  the  building  on  Crosby 
Street  was  too  small  for  the  increasing  demands  of  busi- 
ness, and  five  lots  were  purchased  on  Mulberry  Street. 
During  the  next  year  the  front  building  was  erected,  and 
the  business  transferred  to  it.  At  this  time  Dr.  John  P. 
Durbin  was  editor  of  the  Christian  Advocate  and  Journal, 
and  of  Sunday-school  books  and  tracts.  Through  his  sug- 
gestion and  wise  foresight  the  Concern  began  the  publica- 
tion of  a  Sunday-school  library,  an  enterprise  which  has 
been  continued  ever  since,  and  which  has  resulted  in  a  col- 
lection of  books,  which  for  variety,  adaptation,  and  num- 
ber is  unsurpassed  by  any  similar  collection  in  the  world. 

In  1836  the  entire  building  and  stock  of  the  Bopk 
Concern  were  destroyed  by  fire,  the  loss  reaching  the  sum 
of  a  quarter  of  a  million  of  dollars.  The  fact  that  the 
Church  promptly  contributed  nearly  ninety  thousand  dol- 
lars to  rebuild  is  a  proof  that  the  Book  Concern  had  won 
general  confidence.  Out  of  the  ashes  a  new  building 
sprang  up,  well  adapted  at  that  time  to  the  purposes  of  a 
publishing-house.  The  separation  of  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church  South,  in  1845,  gave  rise  to  a  law-suit  in  the 
United  States  Court,  and  the  court  ordered  a  pro  rata  di- 
vision of  the  property,  which  gave  to  the  Church  South 
two  hundred  and  seventy  thousand  dollars  in  cash  and  all 
the  presses  and  papers  belonging  to  the  Concern  in  the 
South. 

The  Western  Book  Concern  was  established  in  1820  by 
the  General  Conference  of  that  year,  and  Dr.  Martin  Ruter, 
subsequently  president  of  Alleghany  College,  was  appointed 


24  METHODISM  AND  LITERA  TV  RE. 


to  its  charge,  acting  under  the  direction  of  the  agents  at 
New  York.  This  branch  has  gone  on  steadily  increasing, 
and  has  now  become  a  great  and  independent  center  of 
publishing  interests,  with  several  depositories  under  its  con- 
trol. Although  it  has  met  with  reverses,  the  chief  of 
which  was  the  Chicago  fire  in  1871,  yet  it  reports  a  net 
capital  of  above  three  hundred  and  fifty-five  thousand  dol- 
lars, and  sales  during  the  year  1881  amounting  to  over 
seven  hundred  and  fourteen  thousand  dollars. 

In  the  Spring  of  1869  the  building  on  the  corner  of 
Eleventh  Street  and  Broadway,  New  York,  was  purchased 
for  the  joint  use  of  the  Book  Concern  and  the  Missionary 
Society,  at  a  cost  of  about  one  million  dollars.  It  is  con- 
ceded that  for  architectural  beauty  this  structure  is  not 
surpassed  on  Broadway.  Here  are  the  offices  of  the  ed- 
itors, agents,  and  book-keepers.  Here,  too,  are  the  whole- 
sale and  retail  stores  and  mailing  department.  The  manual 
labor  of  type-setting,  stereotyping,  printing,  and  binding  is 
still  done  at  200  Mulberry  Street. 

Now,  having  looked  at  the  outside  of  these  buildings, 
let  us  step  within,  and  see  how  the  work  is  done.  The 
book  agents  are  appointed  by  the  General  Conference,  but 
they  are  by  no  means  independent.  Whatever  money 
they  may  see  in  a  book,  they  can  not  bring  that  book  out 
for  the  market  without  the  indorsement  of  a  censor  ap- 
pointed by  the  same  high  authority.  The  General  Confer- 
ence orders  the  publication  of  certain  periodicals.  Editors 
are  also  chosen  to  prepare  the  matter.  The  agents  are 
obliged  to  print  and  circulate  just  what  the  editor  provides. 
They  have  no  right  to  dot  an  "i"  or  cross  a  "t."  The 
two  parties  are  independent  of  each  other,  though  both 
are  responsible  to  the  same  appointing  body.  In  regard  to 
books,  the  agents  are  at  liberty  to  decline  the  publication 
of  any  one  ;  but  if  they  publish  at  all,  the  book  must  have 
the  sanction  of  the  book  editor,  or  it  never  sees  the  light. 
Every  manuscript  of  our  Sunday-school  books  must  pass 


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the  scrutiny  of  the  corresponding  secretary  of  the  Sunday- 
school  Union. 

These  editors  have  a  keen  scent  for  heresy,  and  if  they 
find  any  thing  dangerous  to  public  morals  they  brand  the 
paper,  and  it  goes  to  the  shades.  In  our  markets  there 
are  inspectors  of  meats.  Stale  food  is  unhealthy,  and  the 
inspector  stands  as  a  guard  to  protect  the  public.  So 
these  editors  are  appointed  to  see  that  our  children  are  not 
fed  with  dangerous  and  corrupting  literature — a  position 
vastly  more  important  than  that  of  the  health  officer.  In 
our  great  ports  are  quarantine  grounds  and  officers.  Every 
ship  must  be  boarded  by  the  officer  appointed,  and  it  can 
not  land  its  passengers  until  the  certificate  of  the  physician 
is  obtained  that  there  is  no  contagious  disease  on  board. 
So  all  our  books  are  quarantined  until  the  guardians  of 
the  precious  young  souls  in  the  care  of  the  Church  shall 
declare  them  healthful  and  saving.  Here,  we  submit,  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  the  advantage  of  those 
who  have  no  official  publishing-house.  Independent  pub- 
lishers are  irresponsible  in  the  matter  of  public  morals. 
The  temptation  will  be  strong  for  them  to  publish  that 
which  will  sell  best.  If  they  cater  to  a  depraved  taste, 
which  clamors  after  sensationalism,  there  is  no  one  to  call 
them  to  account.  This  independent  censorship  of  the 
Methodist  press  is  the  safeguard  of  our  children. 

The  guardianship  of  our  press  is  not  too  rigid.  As 
much  as  we  sometimes  feel  the  need  of  making  books  and 
papers  that  pay  best,  we  do  not  desire  to  see  the  Methodist 
Book  Concern  spotted  with  the  blood  of  young  souls  ruined 
by  a  pernicious  literature. 

Let  us  now  call  attention  to  results.  Let  it  be  under- 
stood that  the  prime  object  of  the  establishment  and  main- 
tenance of  the  Book  Concern  was  not,  and  is  not,  to  make 
money,  but  to  furnish  religious  reading  for  our  people. 
And  yet  it  is  necessary  to  make  money  to  secure  the 
capital  essential  to  the  business. 

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METHODISM  AXD  LITERATURE. 


As  a  result  of  work  in  our  Sunday-school  department 
of  the  Church,  the  conversions  reported  in  the  schools  for 
twenty-five  years  past  are  fully  equal  to  the  increase  of 
Church  members.  If,  as  Churches,  we  lose  our  hold  of 
the  children,  our  aggressive  power  is  gone.  We  can  hold 
them  permanently  only  by  solid  doctrinal  instruction  in 
harmony  with  our  pulpits. 

The  financial  results  have  been  remarkable.  While 
money  is  not  the  primary  object,  we  doubt  if  any  other 
printing-house  in  the  world  can  furnish  a  better  financial 
record.  There  has  been  a  constant  drain  upon  the  Book 
Concern  for  the  general  purposes  of  the  Church.  The 
theory  has  been,  if  no  other  provision  is  made  for  ex- 
penses, the  Book  Concern  must  foot  the  bill.  During  its 
existence,  it  has  paid  to  the  various  interests  of  the 
Church,  outside  of  its  own  business,  a  sum  aggregating 
nearly  two  millions  of  dollars. 

Other  houses  may  add  their  profits  to  their  capital  for 
the  purpose  of  increasing  their  facilities,  or  divide  them 
among  the  proprietors;  but  the  Book  Concern  has  paid 
out  its  profits  for  Church  interests  from  year  to  year.  If 
the  world  has  a  parallel  in  the  history  of  religious  or  be- 
nevolent publishing  establishments,  we  have  never  seen 
the  record. 

The  moral  and  religious  results  of  a  system  which  has 
sent  out  for  nearly  a  century  such  a  constant  and  full 
stream  of  devotional,  instructive,  and  Christian  literature 
can  not  be  computed.  The  benefits  are  incalculable. 
Wielding  the  strongest  arm  ot  modern  moral  influence, 
laving  a  contribution  on  the  best  minds  of  our  own  and 
other  Churches,  and  reaching  the  youth  with  a  pure  litera- 
ture at  the  most  plastic  period  of  their  existence,  who  can 
estimate  its  molding  power,  its  edifying  mission,  its  re- 
straining influences,  or  its  glorious  benedictions  ? 

The  Book  Concern  is  a  child  of  Church  necessities,  in 
complete  harmony  with  its  spirit  and  discipline.    In  its 


THE  METHODIST  BOOK  CONCERN.  27 


woDderfully  compact  and  comprehensive  "Book  of  Dis- 
cipline" all  its  preachers  are  enjoined,  among  other  godly 
recommendations,  to  the  '  'reading  of  the  most  useful 
books;"  and,  it  any  should  lack  taste  in  this  direction, 
they  are  urged  to  "contract  a  taste  for  it  by  use,  or  to  re- 
turn to  their  former  employment."  And  the  laity,  while 
prohibited  the  "  reading  of  those  books  which  do  not  tend 
to  the  knowledge  or  love  of  God,"  are  expected  to  be  a 
reading  people;  and  to  secure  this  end,  it  is  made  the  duty 
of  preachers  "  to  take  care  that  every  society  be  duly  sup- 
plied with  books." 

The  work  of  the  Book  Concern  has  been  in  harmony 
with  the  highest  spiritual  interests  of  humanity,  and  its 
methods  and  objects  are  open  to  all.  It  invites  and  chal- 
lenges examination.  It  aims  to  permeate  society  with  its 
health-giving  streams,  and  to  reach  all  classes  for  their 
good.  It  asks  the  co-operation  and  friendly  aid  of  all  who 
labor  for  human  weal.  Shall  the  publishing  interests  not 
expect  and  receive  it? 

SANFORD  HUNT. 


28  METHODISM  ASD  LITERATURE. 


III. 

CIRCULATION  OF  OUR  LITERATURE. 

To  supply  Methodist  people  with  Methodist  literature 
is  a  Wesleyan  idea ;  the  means  and  methods  by  which  this 
has  been  done  for  more  than  a  century  form  a  part  of  the 
connectional  system  of  Methodism.  During  the  early  period 
of  the  United  Societies  in  Great  Britain  Mr.  Wesley  re- 
sorted to  the  use  of  the  press  in  defense  of  the  evangel- 
istic work  to  which  he  had  been  providentially  called.  Its 
utility  as  a  means  to  extend  as  well  as  defend  that  work 
at  once  became  apparent  to  his  practical  mind  ;  he  re- 
garded it  a  providential  agency,  and  employed  it  diligently 
in  the  production  of  a  literature,  the  influence  of  which 
is  manifest  in  both  the  doctrinal  unity  and  connectional 
economy  of  Methodism.  His  "  helpers" — the  preachers — 
to  whose  loyal  co-operation  the  success  of  the  Methodistic 
movement  is  largely  due,  heartily  joined  him  in  his  plans 
for  the  use  of  the  press.  With  characteristic  zeal  they  cir- 
culated the  tracts,  pamphlets,  books,  and  magazine  he 
published  ;  and  the  supply  of  the  people  with  good  books 
was  soon  named  in  the  conferences  as  one  of  the  specified 
duties  of  preachers.  The  system  thus  developed  was  in- 
corporated in  the  Wesleyan  Church  at  the  time  of  its 
organization,  and  has  been  carefully  maintained  and  suc- 
cessfully operated  by  it  for  nearly  a  century. 

The  Methodist  missionaries  who  came  to  America,  hav- 
ing learned  the  utility  of  the  religious  press  from  its  use 
bvMr.  Wesley,  soon  began  to  sell  (and  some  even  to  print) 
books  that  were  helpful  in  their  work.  During  the  colonial 
period  conference  action  was  taken  as  to  the  republication 


CIRCULATION  OF  OUR  LITERATURE. 


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and  circulation  of  Mr.  Wesley's  books,  and  the  whole  mat- 
ter became  so  interwoven  with  the  operations  of  the  young 
Church  that  five  years  after  its  formal  organization  the 
Conference  (in  1789)  assumed  its  control  by  appointing 
a  book  steward  (the  initial  step  in  establishing  the  Book 
Concern),  to  superintend  the  circulation  and  sale  of  books 
through  the  preachers,  and  subsequently  by  appropriating 
the  profits  of  the  business  to  connectional  purposes. 

The  Methodist  publishing  system  comprehends  and  pro- 
vides for  both  the  publication  and  circulation  of  a  Method- 
istic  literature;  it  is  a  connectional  plan  under  which  tJie  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church  owns  her  press,  supervises  her  publi- 
cations, and  produces  and  distributes  a  literature  that  is 
in  harmony  with  her  docirines,  usages,  economy,  and  mission. 

The  capacity  of  the  Book  Concern  to  produce  a  litera- 
ture should  be  mentioned  in  connection  with  the  plans  and 
means  for  its  circulation.  The  value  of  the  lands,  build- 
ings, machinery,  material,  etc.,  in  1881,  exclusively  de- 
voted to  and  employed  in  publishing  books  and  periodicals, 
was  as  follows :  In  the  New  York  Book  Concern,  $359,880; 
in  the  Western  Book  Concern,  $301,122  ;  total,  $661,002. 
The  remainder  of  the  capital  is  chiefly  employed  in  the 
circulation  of  the  literature,  as  will  be  shown  further  on. 
The  $661,002  of  the  capital  represents,  in  one  way,  the 
material  and  mechanical  facilities  of  our  Church  for  the 
production  of  books  and  periodicals. 

Having  had  and  now  having  in  her  ranks  a  large 
number  of  talented  and  scholarly  men  and  women,  she  has 
successfully  utilized  her  publishing  facilities,  and  is  still 
daily  increasing  the  volume  of  Methodist  literature.  Fif- 
teen editors,  chosen  by  the  General  Conference,  and  eight 
assistant  editors,  are  constantly  employed  ;  a  large  corps  of 
writers  with  varied  gifts  are  paid  contributors  to  the  peri- 
odicals ;  and  besides  these  there  are  authors,  many  in  num- 
ber, preachers,  laymen,  and  gifted  women,  Methodists, 
who  devote  time  and  talent  to  writing  books.  The 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


present  catalogue  of  the  Book  Concerns  gives  a  list  of 
about  three  thousand  different  books:  nearly  all  of  these, 
and  many  earlier  volumes  now  out  of  print,  are  from  the 
pens  of  Methodist  authors.  Our  Church  is  rich  in  her 
corps  of  writers  and  authors,  and  strong  in  possessing  the 
means  to  publish  the  productions  of  their  consecrated 
talents. 

The  extent  of  the  field  she  occupies  and  the  diversity 
of  her  work,  from  that  in  the  wealthy  city  church  to  that 
in  the  isolated  frontier  mission,  requires  a  great  variety  in 
the  form  and  kind  of  her  literature.  These  wants  have 
been  fairly  met  with  books,  especially  in  the  English,  Ger- 
man, and  Scandinavian  languages,  for  the  different  classes 
of  readers — for  unaw7akened  sinners,  young  converts,  ad- 
vancing Christians,  and  the  closest  students  of  the  Scrip- 
tures— books  for  the  preachers,  books  for  the  people,  and 
books  for  home,  Church,  and  Sunday-school  libraries  ;  and 
also  with  a  periodical  literature  of  great  diversity  in  form 
and  purpose.  The  money  value  of  the  books  sold  annually 
is  nearly  double  that  of  the  periodicals,  yet  a  vast  amount 
of  reading  matter  from  Methodist  writers  is  furnished  to 
the  members  of  our  congregations  and  Sunday-schools 
through  the  various  periodicals  published  by  the  Church, 
ranging  from  the  Picture  Lesson  Paper,  for  the  youngest 
reader,  to  the  scholarly  Methodist  Quarterly  Revieio. 

The  circulation  of  the  publications  of  the  Book  Con- 
cern, as  already  stated,  has,  from  the  first,  been  a  part  of 
the  publishing  system  of  our  Church.  It  could  not  have 
been  otherwise  for  the  leading  purpose  of  the  Methodist 
preachers,  in  devising  and  projecting  that  system,  was  to 
furnish  the  people  with  a  literature  that  would  be  helpful 
in  the  extension  of  Methodism ;  and  in  order  to  this  it  was 
as  necessary  to  provide  for  the  circulation  as  for  the  pub- 
lication of  that  literature.  These  preachers,  with  the  ex- 
ample of  Mr.  Wesley  and  his  coadjutors  before  them,  nat- 
urally and  wisely  adopted  the"  Wesleyan  plan,  and  became 


CIRCULATION  OF  OUR  LITERATURE. 


31 


themselves  the  agents  and  representatives  of  the  Book 
Concern  to  sell  the  publications  approved  by  the  Church. 

The  General  Conference  of  1792  made  it  the  duty  of 
the  preacher  in  charge  11  to  take  care  that  every  society  be 
duly  supplied  with  books;"  that  of  1880  added,  "and  Meth- 
odist literature.'"  (Discipline,  178,  Sec.  7.)  But  for  this 
plan  and  the  zeal  of  the  preachers  in  working  it,  it  is 
quite  certain  the  Book  Concern  could  not  have  achieved 
its  marked  success.  The  circuit  system  carried  Method- 
ism to  villages  and  sparsely  settled  rural  districts,  as  well 
as  to  cities;  hence  a  large  proportion  of  our  people  could 
not  have  procured  Methodist  books  had  they  not  been 
brought  to  their  homes  by  the  Itinerant  preachers.  These 
devoted  men  were  quick  to  perceive  their  opportunity  of 
doing  good  by  selling  the  books  of  their  Church,  and  they 
engaged  earnestly  in  this,  as  in  every  other  pastoral  and 
ministerial  work.  For  many  years  after  the  publishing 
system  was  fully  established,  there  were  few  Methodist 
pastors  who  did  not  carry  the  books  into  their  charges; 
and  as  a  result  there  were  few  Methodist  homes,  even  in 
the  remotest  circuits,  in  which  some  Methodist  books  might 
not  be  found;  and,  in  time,  there  were  libraries  in  most 
Methodist  Sunday-schools. 

When,  in  1826,  the  new  era  in  our  periodical  litera- 
ture was  inaugurated  by  the  publication  of  the  Christian 
Advocate,  the  preachers  brought  it  before  the  people ;  its 
circulation  and  that  of  the  other  Advocates,  since  estab- 
lished by  the  Church,  to  meet  the  wants  of  her  ever- 
expanding  field,  has  been  chiefly  secured  and  maintained 
through  their  efforts.  From  the  first  issue  of  the  Sunday- 
school  Advocate  much  has  also  been  done  by  them  to  intro- 
duce and  extend  the  circulation  of  our  literature  for  the 
officers,  teachers,  and  scholars  in  Methodist  Sunday- 
schools. 

Depositories  are  a  part  of  the  system  of  our  Church 
for  the  circulation  of  her  books  and  periodicals.    They  are 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


distributing  points  rendered  necessary  by  the  growth  of 
the  Church  and  the  extent  of  the  country.  The  first  was 
established  at  Cincinnati  in  1820,  and  twenty  years  later 
created  a  publishing-house  under  a  distinct  charter,  and 
entitled  The  Western  Methodist  Booh  Concern.  Deposi- 
tories have  since  been  located  at  Boston,  Buffalo,  Pitts- 
burg, Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Atlanta,  and  San  Francisco. 
The  stock  of  books,  including  those  in  process  of  binding, 
in  the  Book  Concerns  and  Depositories  was  worth,  in 
1881,  at  a  low  valuation,  $484,294;  add  to  this  the  value 
of  the  buildings  used  for  stores,  stock-rooms,  counting- 
rooms,  etc.,  and  the  capital  employed  by  our  Church  in 
carrying  a  necessary  stock  of  her  literature  is  at  least  a 
million  dollars.  By  authority  of  the  General  Conference, 
special  arrangements  have  also  been  made  for  the  encour- 
agement of  Methodist  book-stores  in  Philadelphia,  Balti- 
more, Detroit,  and  a  few  other  commercial  centers.  A 
chief  design  of  these  depositories  and  stores  was,  and  is, 
to  reduce  the  cost  of  transportation  to  the  purchaser, 
thereby  enabling  the  preachers  to  supply  their  charges 
with  books  on  the  most  advantageous  terms.  The  money 
value  of  the  literature  sold  through  the  seven  Depositories 
in  1881  was  8549,694.15;  namely,  books,  $375,023.72; 
periodicals,  $174,670.43. 

The  Sunday-school  Union  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  was  formed  for  the  gratuitous  circulation  of 
her  Sunday-school  literature.  For  many  years  its  Corres- 
ponding Secretary  has  been  the  editor  of  Sunday-school  li- 
brary books,  and  more  than  two  thousand  volumes  thus  pre- 
pared for  the  press  and  published  by  the  Book  Concerns 
are  now  found  in  their  catalogue.  The  Sunday-school  Union 
is  better  known  now  through  the  Berean  system  of  aids 
for  Bible  study,  the  papers  for  the  youth  and  children,  and 
various  helpful  requisites  for  officers,  teachers,  and  schol- 
ars ;  but  a  very  large  number  of  books  have  been  put 
into  circulation  by  its  donations  to  needy  schools,  and  it  is 


CIRCULATION  OF  OUR  LITERATURE. 


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still  doiDg  this  good  work,  especially  in  the  pioneer  and 
other  mission  fields  of  our  Church. 

The  Tract  Society  of  The  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  was  also  organized  for  the  circulation  of  Methodist 
literature  in  tract  form.  The  tracts  prepared  by  this  society 
are  published  by  the  Book  Concerns,  and  kept  in  stock, 
for  donation  by  the  several  district  committees,  and  for 
sale  at  a  low  price. 

The  Depositories  are  parts  or  branches  of  the  Book 
Concerns ;  the  Sunday-school  Union  and  Tract  Society  are 
independent  connectional  societies.  In  the  preparation  and 
distribution  of  their  special  kinds  and  forms  of  literature 
they  are  intimately  connected  with  the  Book  Concerns,  but 
much  of  their  work  is  distinct,  of  which  a  separate  report 
is  annually  given  to  the  Church. 

Methodist  preachers,  by  circulating  Methodist  literature, 
have  made  the  Methodist  press  a  most  potent  adjunct  of  the 
Methodist  pulpit.  It  is  well  known,  however,  that  they  are 
not  as  diligent  in  all  forms  of  this  important  work  as  afore- 
time. Many  labor  with  zeal  to  circulate  the  weekly  Advocates 
and  the  Sunday-school  periodicals,  and  few  (if  any)  entirely 
neglect  this ;  but,  on  the  other  hand,  they  do  not  take  so 
great  care  to  supply  their  charges  with  the  books.  Where 
our  people  and  Sunday-schools  are  convenient  to  the  Book 
Concerns  or  depositories  they,  in  many  cases,  supply  them- 
selves with  books  and  Sunday-school  periodicals,  instead  of 
ordering  them  through  the  preachers,  as  was  formerly  done. 
In  many  localities,  particularly  in  the  East,  some  part  of  our 
books  can  be  secured  through  book-stores ;  so  from  one  cause 
and  another,  it  has  come  to  pass  within  the  past  twenty 
or  thirty  years  that  a  considerable  portion  of  the  book 
sales  is  direct  to  the  people.  It  was  formerly  expected 
that  the  Sunday-school  books  would  be  ordered  through 
the  preachers;  while  this  was  generally  done,  a  larger 
proportion  of  the  schools  was  provided  with  libraries  than 
at  present.     The  multiplication  of  the  kinds  of  Sunday- 


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school  periodicals  may  account,  in  part,  for  this  change,  but 
will  not  explain  the  fact  that  perhaps  in  not  more  than  one- 
half  of  our  schools  is  there  the  semblance  of  a  library,  aocl 
that  in  a  smaller  proportion  of  them  is  there  a  good  supply 
of  our  books. 

The  number  of  our  Sunday-schools  having  libraries  is 
relatively  less  than  twenty  years  ago,  and  the  proportion 
of  Methodist  homes  in  which  our  new  books,  or  even 
older  standard  works,  are  found  is  not  increasing;  as  a 
consequence  the  youth  in  many  of  these  Sunday-schools 
and  homes  are  growing  up,  not  only  without  the  benefit 
of  Methodist  books,  but  also  without  even  a  knowledge  of 
them.  This  fact  is  appalling,  and  considered  in  its  rela- 
tions and  bearings  must  occasion  deep  concern.  Think  of 
it !  The  field  of  Methodist  literature  has  enlarged  and  the 
corps  of  Methodist  authors  augmented  ;  the  publishing 
facilities  of  the  Book  Concerns  have  been  greatly  improved, 
and  the,  number  and  variety  of  Methodist  books  increased ; 
our  people  have  more  means  than  ever  before  with  which 
to  purchase  them,  and  yet  there  are  hundreds  of  Meth- 
odist Sunday-schools  without  libraries,  and  thousands  of 
Methodist  homes  in  which  there  are  no  Methodist  books ! 

Of  course  many  of  our  people  are  able  to  buy  but  few 
books,  and  many  of  our  schools  are  in  poor  communities, 
but  this  lamentable  dearth  of  Methodist  books  is  not  con- 
fined to  such  homes  and  schools,  but  is  too  prevalent  in 
the  more  favored  sections  and  societies.  For  instance,  a 
large  conference,  located  within  a  well-improved  part  of 
the  richest  belt  of  the  West,  containing  over  two  hundred 
pastoral  charges  and  about  five  hundred  Sunday-schools, 
with  39,806  scholars  enrolled  in  1881,  reported  one  hun- 
dred and  forty  Sunday-school  libraries  in  sixty-three  of  its 
charges,  and  no  libraries  in  the  remaining  one  hundred  and 
forty-three  charges  embracing  three  hundred  and  sixty  Sun- 
day-schools. After  deducting  the  number  in  the  infant  classes, 
there  were,  by  the  report,  about  thirty-two  thousand  schol- 


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ars,  of  whom  less  than  Dine  thousand  had  access  to  Sunday- 
school  libraries !  Where  the  people  are  well-to-do,  as  they 
generally  are  in  this  section,  the  ratio  of  Methodist  books 
in  the  homes  is  not  likely  to  be  much  greater  than  it  is 
found  to  be  in  the  Sunday-schools.  It  is  probable  that  in 
this  as  in  other  conferences  many  of  the  schools  take  our 
Sunday-school  periodicals,  and  that  some  one  of  our  weekly 
Advocates  is  found  in  many  of  the  homes ;  but  these  are  no 
proper  substitute  for  useful  and  instructive  books. 

What  can  be  done  to  increase  the  circulation  of  the 
books  published  by  our  Church?  By  what  means  can 
they  be  brought  within  the  reach  of  our  people,  young 
and  old  ?  In  a  measure  by  Church  libraries ;  also  by  Sun- 
day-school libraries ;  and  by  collections  in  the  home. 

The  Church  Library. — To  the  writer  it  has  seemed 
that  in  many  places  it  would  be  practicable  to  establish  such 
libraries,  and  they  would  be  eminently  serviceable;  and 
during  the  past  ten  years  the  matter  has  been  presented 
to  most  of  the  conferences,  in  the  West.  The  idea  of  a 
Methodist  library  is  not  new;  the  Sunday-school  library 
has  its  recognized  place,  and  years  ago  a  "  Methodist  Fam- 
ily Library"  was  projected.  The  latter  involved  an  expense 
that  few  families  were  disposed  to  incur ;  the  former,  while 
valuable  in  its  place,  seems  too  limited  in  its  scope  to  in- 
terest all  classes ;  hence  the  question  naturally  came  up, 
Why  not  combine  what  would  have  been  the  Family  Li- 
brary with  the  Sunday-school  Library,  and  thereby  create 
a  Church  Library,  to  meet  the  wants  of  all,  old  and 
young,  in  the  Sunday-school  and  congregation?  The 
suggestion  has  also  been  made  that  the  books  of  such  a 
library  might  be  issued  on  a  week-day  evening,  making 
it  the  occasion  of  an  informal  social  meeting  of  the  old 
and  young  in  the  Church.  The  influence  of  a  good  li- 
brary, to  which  all  would  be  drawn,  would  be  beneficial 
in  every  way.  In  the  congregation  it  would  come  to  be 
"Our  Library" — aud  through  it  all  having  any  interest 


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in  the  Church,  whether  in  the  congregation  or  Sunday- 
school,  would  be  brought  into  pleasaut  association. 

The  Church  Library  would  combine  economy  with 
utility.  The  Agents  of  the  Western  Book  Concern  pre- 
sented this  view  several  years  ago,  as  follows:* 

"We  again  emphasize  the  importance  of  so  enlarging 
the  Sunday-school  Library  that  it  shall  contain  reading 
matter  adapted  to  all  persons  who  ought  to  be  found  in  the 
Sunday-school,  either  as  teachers  or  students  of  the  Scrip- 
tures; and  certainly  these  classes  comprehend  a  large  por- 
portion  of  every  congregation.  We  mention  the  following 
among  the  advantages  resulting  from  such  a  library: 

"(1.)  Many  of  the  best  minds  of  the  community  will 
be  attracted  to  our  Churches  and  Sunday-schools,  and  be 
permanently  benefited  by  the  books  such  Libraries  may 
contain. 

"(2.)  It  would  be  a  great  economy.  A  few  hundred 
dollars  thus  invested,  which  would  require  from  each  family 
but  a  small  sum,  will  afford  an  amount  of  reading  matter 
to  a  community  that  it  would  take  thousands  of  dollars  to 
purchase  and  place  in  each  family. 

"(3.)  By  thus  timely  putting  suitable  books  within  the 
reach  of  our  more  advanced  Sunday-school  scholars,  we 
will  save  them  from  becoming  ensnared  by  the  ruinous  pro- 
ductions of  the  irreligious  press. 

"(4.)  The  acquaintance  thus  formed  with  the  useful 
literature  of  our  press  will  induce  the  selection  of  many 
valuable  books  for  our  homes  which  would  otherwise  re- 
main unknown  to  our  people. 

"Sunday-school  workers  will  appreciate  the  further 
advantage  of  bringing  the  school  and  congregation  nearer 
to  each  other,  by  alike  interesting  them  in  the  Library  as 
existing  for  their  common  use  and  mutual  benefit.  It 
would  seem  that  contributions  for  a  Library  of  such  gen- 
eral interest  could  be  readily  secured,  at  least  in  every  town 

*  Catalogue  of  1873. 


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37 


and  village ;  and  the  Church  that  thus  plans  for  the  moral 
well-being  of  a  community,  and  moves  to  meet  so  impor- 
tant a  want,  will  strengthen  its  hold  upon  the  people,  and 
greatly  increase  its  usefulness. 

"It  would  not  be  difficult  to  so  arrange  for  the  weekly 
distribution  of  the  books  as  to  make  it  a  pleasant  occasion 
both  for  the  members  of  the  school  and  congregation,  and 
thereby  avoid  the  interruption  of  the  worship  and  Bible 
study  occasioned  by  distributing  the  Library-books  during 
the  session  of  the  school. 

"Why  not  make  the  Library  the  point  in  common 
about  which  the  active  workers  in  the  Church  and  in  the 
Sunday-school  shall  rally,  that  there  may  be  unity  and  har- 
mony in  all  those  efforts  that  have  in  view  but  the  one 
object  of  Christian  work — the  salvation  of  the  people,  both 
young  and  old?" 

The  necessity  for  the  Church  Library  is  not  obviated 
by  the  existence  of  Public  Libraries.  These,  as  generally 
constituted,  do  not  meet  the  wants  for  which  the  Church 
would  provide  a  library.  Certainly  they  do  not  foster  a 
taste  for  the  kind  of  reading  that  the  Church  should  en- 
courage. Usually,  in  the  Public  Library  works  of  fiction, 
especially  novels,  form  the  largest  class  of  books,  and 
whether  by  American  or  foreign  authors,  they  are  selected 
without  apparent  reference  to  either  their  moral  or  political 
teaching.  The  official  reports  show  this  class  of  books  to 
comprise  from  sixty  to  seventy-five  per  cent  of  the  entire 
circulation  of  these  libraries.  They  are,  in  the  main,  ve- 
hicles for  the  circulation  of  fiction  at  public  expense.  On 
the  other  hand,  the  Church  Library  would  not  only  bring 
good  books  within  reach,  but  its  very  existence,  as  well  as 
its  whole  influence,  would  encourage  the  reading  of  a  pure 
aud  wholesome  literature.  While  publications  of  the  Book 
Concerns  would,  of  course,  form  an  important  part  of  such 
a  library,  it  would  also  contain  the  best  books  of  other 


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publishing  houses,  selected  with  special  reference  to  the 
intellectual  and  spiritual  benefit  of  its  patrons. 

Several  such  libraries  have  already  been  formed  in  the 
West.  Enough  has  been  done  to  show  that  it  is  quite 
practicable  for  our  Churches  in  many  of  the  larger  vil- 
lages and  towns  to  establish  them.  But  this  will  rarely  be 
done  except  under  the  leadership  of  the  preachers.  The 
people  will  not  be  found  indifferent  in  regard  to  the  profit- 
able use  of  the  press  when  their  attention  is  earnestly  di- 
rected to  the  matter.  When  the  pastors  become  the  ad- 
vocates of  well-appointed  libraries,  and  urge  their  claims 
with  the  zeal  their  importance  demands,  the  people  will 
respond  and  make  them  one  of  the  appointments  of  the 
Church. 

The  Sunday-school  Library. — In  many  places  it 
will  not  be  deemed  practicable  to  form  Church  Libraries, 
but  there  are  few  places  where  the  people  themselves,  or 
aided  by  our  Sunday-school  Union,  can  not  procure  a  Sun- 
day-school Library.  In  many  of  our  schools  there  are 
libraries,  or  the  remnants  of  libraries,  to  which  no  new 
books  have  been  added  for  years,  and  these  must  be  re- 
plenished before  an  interest  in  the  books  can  be  awakened 
among  the  scholars.  No  argument  is  required  to  prove 
that  a  good  library  may  be  of  incalculable  value  to  a  Sun- 
day-school. Where  this  is  recognized  it  is  not  difficult  to 
enlist  a  community  in  a  movement  to  purchase  books. 
The  preacher  is  the  best  leader  in  such  a  movement.  If 
a  school  be  without  a  good  library  because  of  a  notion 
among  officers  and  teachers  that  one  is  not  needed,  the 
pastor  can  do  most  to  remove  the  fallacy ;  if  it  be  from  a 
feeling  that  many  so-called  Sunday-school  books  have  a 
pernicious  tendency,  the  Disciplinary  Committee  (Discip- 
line, ^[  257),  of  which  the  pastor  is  the  head,  can  readily 
remove  this  objection ;  if  from  a  general  apathy  toward 
the  Sunday-school  and  its  work,  an  interest  among  the 
people  will  only  be  awakened  when  a  deeply  interested 


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pastor  presses  the  matter  upon  their  consciences  and 
hearts. 

Here  the  relation  of  our  Sunday-school  Union  to  the 
circulation  of  books  is  important.  There  are  hundreds  of 
schools  in  our  Churches  in  the  South  and  in  the  pioneer 
regions  of  the  West  which  have  never  had  a  library  book, 
and  they  are  not  able  to  purchase  them.  Books  are  not 
less  needful  in  these  schools  than  in  the  older  and 
wealthier  communities.  It  would  be  a  great  work,  a  truly 
missionary  as  well  as  connectioual  work,  on  the  part  of 
our  Church  to  supply  them.  If,  when  the  claims  of  the 
Sunday-school  Union  are  presented,  the  extent  and  impor- 
tance of  this  work  were  fully  and  earnestly  set  forth,  would 
not  our  people  furnish  the  means  for  so  good  a  cause? 

Books  in  the  Home. — Whatever  may  be  done  in  the  ■ 
way  of  Church  and  Sunday-school  libraries,  still  some 
Methodist  books  should  have  a  place  in  Methodist  homes. 
They  are  unobtrusive  witnesses  of  a  cordial  interest  in  the 
Church — a  silent  testimony  in  its  behalf.  The  books  be- 
longing to  the  home  are  among  the  things  which  go,  in 
some  way,  to  make  up  its  individuality — that  character 
which  distinguishes  it  from  others  and  impresses  itself  on 
every  member,  especially  the  young.  Methodist  books  in 
the  Methodist  home  I.  Those  old,  familiar  books — the  biog- 
raphy, the  history,  the  devotional,  and  even  the  doctrinal 
volume — how  many  remember  them  with  a  tender  interest ! 
Read  there  they  became  associated  in  memory  with  the 
sacred  place,  and  their  teaching  was  invested  with  an  en- 
during charm.  And  there  are  lingering,  grateful  thoughts 
about  the  preachers  who  brought  these  books  into  the 
home.  This  Wesleyan  plan  put  Methodist  books  into  thou- 
sands of  homes  which  otherwise  Avould  have  been  without 
them.  What  of  the  other  thousands  within  the  wide 
domain  of  the  Church  in  which  no  one  of  the  valuable 
publications  of  the  Church  is  found ! 

Notwithstanding  the  improved  facilities  of  transporta- 


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tion,  and  the  development  of  trade  in  our  country,  there 
are  large  sections  in  the  Western  and  many  Eastern  con- 
ferences in  which  there  are  no  regular  book-stores ;  the 
same  is  true  of  entire  conferences  in  the  South  ;  and,  in 
all  these  sections  our  people  can  not  buy  Methodist  books, 
not  even  Hymnals  and  Disciplines,  through  the  trade. 
Post-routes  reach  every  neighborhood  and  postage  is  cheap, 
but  experience  proves  that  only  a  few  will  order  books  by 
mail.  It  is  out  of  the  regular  line ;  other  things  needed 
in  the  home  are  not  secured  in  that  way.  Many  are  not 
advised  as  to  what  books  are  published ;  many  who  see 
them  announced  in  the  Advocates  know  little  of  their 
respective  merits.  So,  in  many  ways,  thousands  of  our 
people  are  as  dependent  upon  the  preachers  in  the  matter 
of  the  best  books  for  the  home  as  was  the  great  body  of  the 
Church  half  a  century  ago.  In  every  pastoral  charge  in 
the  connection  there  are  some  homes  where  Methodist 
books  will  not  be  found  until  they  are  introduced  in  some 
way  by  the  pastors. 

It  does  not  follow  that  all  former  methods  are  to  be  uni- 
formly pursued,  that  the  saddle-bags  are  to  be  put  into  use 
again  to  circulate  the  books — though  that  might  be  done 
with  great  gain  to  the  Church  in  not  a  few  fields — but 
that,  as  the  fathers  supplied  the  people  with  books  in  the 
way  best  adapted  to  their  circumstances,  so  now  the  same 
thing  should  be  done  in  such  ways  as  are  most  prac- 
ticable and  likely  to  secure  directly  and  with  the  least 
labor  and  expense  the  best  results.  Slow  and  costly  trans- 
portation made  it  necessary  for  them  to  order  the  books 
in  quantity,  and  keep  them  on  hand ;  but  with  railroads 
radiating  in  every  direction  from  the  cities  in  which  the 
Book  Concerns  and  Depositories  are  located,  that  necessity 
no  longer  exists,  except  it  be  in  the  remoter  pioneer  fields. 
The  people  are  more  likely  to  buy  the  books  if  they  see 
them ;  but  the  preacher  may  readily  meet  this  condition 
by  sample  copies  of  what  he  thinks  will  be  of  greatest 


CIRCULATION  OF  OUR  LITERATURE.  41 


value  in  his  charge,  and  a  dozen  or  a  score  of  volumes, 
at  most,  would  be  all  the  samples  needed  at  a  time  in  either 
a  circuit  or  a  station. 

A  preacher  may  awaken  some  interest  in  the  books  by- 
placing  a  Book  Concern  catalogue  in  every  Methodist 
home,  from  the  wealthiest  to  the  humblest,  within  his 
charge.  He  can  mention  in  his  pastoral  visits,  at  prayer, 
class,  and  official  meetings,  and  sometimes  from  the  pulpit, 
some  of  the  books  he  may  think  would  be  most  useful. 
During  the  past  year  a  presiding  elder,  believing  that  the 
circulation  of  "  The  Class  Leader,"  by  Rev.  John  Atkin- 
son, would  do  good,  called  attention  to  the  book  at  his 
quarterly  meetings,  and  sold  copies  to  many  of  the  class- 
leaders  in  his  district.  Revivals  and  other  special  meet- 
ings afford  an  occasion  for  the  introduction  of  books 
especially  adapted  to  them.  Place  in  the  hand  of  each 
convert  and  young  Church  member,  at  the  beginning  of 
a  Christian  life,  either  ''Counsels  to  Converts,"  by  Dr. 
George;  "Elements  of  Methodism,"  by  Dr.  Stevenson; 
"At  the  Threshold,"  by  Dr.  Houghton;  "Aspects  of 
Christian  Experience,"  by  Bishop  Merrill,  or  some  other 
book  of  this  general  class  published  by  our  Church  for  the 
instruction  and  encouragement  of  the  young  Christian,  and 
who  can  estimate  the  effect  upon  them  and  through  them 
upon  the  Church  and  world !  So  there  are  times  and 
seasons  especially  favorable  for  putting  into  the  hands  and 
homes  of  our  people  Methodist  books  adapted  to  almost 
every  condition  of  the  Church,  every  stage  of  Christian 
experience,  every  phase  and  form  of  Christian  work. 

To  the  pastor  who  purposes  to  benefit  his  people  by 
furnishing  them  the  books  needful  for  spiritual  culture 
there  will  be  no  lack  of  opportunity  for  their  introduction. 
There  are  many  preachers  who,  whatever  be  the  character 
of  their  appointment,  invariably  increase  the  circulation  of 
the  Church  papers,  because  they  feel  that  the  people  need 
these  papers,  and  that  they  ought  to  have  them.   The  same 


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feeling  iu  regard  to  the  books  makes  a  preacher  succeed 
in  extending  their  circulation.  Those  who  have  a  mind 
for  this  work  never  fail  in  it.  The  German  books  pub- 
lished by  the  Church  are  sold  almost  exclusively  through 
the  German  preachers.  In  1881  the  sales  of  our  German 
books  averaged  a  fraction  above  ninety-eight  cents  to 
each  member  of  the  German  Churches ;  of  our  Eng- 
lish books  a  fraction  under  sixty  cents  to  each  member  of 
the  English-speaking  Churches ;  the  ratio  of  the  circula- 
tion of  the  German  periodicals  quadruples  that  of  the  cor- 
responding English  periodicals.  The  circumstances  and 
condition  of  the  people  does  not  account  for  this ;  the  Ger- 
man preachers  have  Wesleyan  notions  of  the  importance  of 
Methodist  literature  and  of  the  advantage  of  conforming  to 
the  connectional  plans;  they  have  a  mind  for  the  work  and  it 
is  done.  Does  not  the  wide  circulation  of  our  German  books 
and  periodicals  have  an  important  relation  to  the  fact  that 
the  missionary  collections  in  the  seven  German  conferences 
in  this  country  averaged  in  1881  seventy  cents  a  member, 
while  the  average  throughout  the  other  eighty-six  confer- 
ences was  only  thirty-six  cents  a  member? 

What  has  Been  Dome.  —  While  many  Methodist 
Sunday-schools  have  never  had  libraries  and  many  Meth- 
odist homes  have  been  without  Methodist  books — many 
even  without  a  Church  paper — yet  far  more  has  been  done 
in  circulating  Methodist  literature  than  is  generally  known. 
It  is  not  possible  to  ascertain  how  many  books  and  period- 
icals have  been  printed  and  put  among  the  people,  but  in 
the  absence  of  exact  data  some  idea  may  be  formed  from 
the  financial  results.  The  books  and  periodicals  as  com- 
pared with  those  of  other  denominations  have  been  rela- 
tively cheap,  and,  a  large  proportion  of  them  having  been 
sold  by  the  Book  Concerns  and  Depositories  at  a  discount 
from  the  retail  or  published  price,  the  margin  of  profit  has 
not  been  large,  and  yet  the  sales  have  been  so  great  as  to 
yield  an  aggregate  profit  of  about  three  million  dollars 


CIRCULATION  OF  OUR  LITERATURE.  43 


since  the  loss  of  the  New  York  Book  Concern  by  fire  in 
1836.  During  this  forty-five  years  (notwithstanding  the 
loss  by  fire  in  Chicago,  in  1871 ,  and  the  losses  on  non- 
paying  periodicals  and  depositories  established  by  General 
Conference,  aggregating  about  four  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars) there  has  been  an  increase  of  $1,136,196.54  in  the 
net  capital  of  the  two  Book  Concerns  ;  and  there  has  been 
paid  out  by  order  of  General  Conference,  during  the  same 
period,  above  fifteen  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the  benefit 
of  the  worn-out  preachers,  for  the  support  of  the  bishops, 
and  for  other  connectional  purposes,  including  $366,909.62 
to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South  under  adjust- 
ment of  the  suit  brought  in  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court.  The  amount  received  for  the  books  actually  put 
into  circulation  in  1881  was  $874,191,  and  for  the  periodi- 
cals $494,334;  total,  $1,368,525.  During  the  past  thirty 
years  (since  1851)  the  sales  of  books  and  periodicals  by 
the  New  York  Book  Concern  and  its  Depositories  have 
amounted  to  $16,997,331.28;  of  the  Western  Book  Con- 
cern and  its  Depositories,  $15,194,931.02;  total  in  thirty 
years,  $32,192,462.30. 

While  there  are  relatively  more  Methodist  homes  and 
Sunday-schools  without  Methodist  books  now  than  afore- 
time, yet  the  circulation  of  the  Church  and  Sunday-school 
periodicals  is  relatively  much  greater.  In  1851  the  circu- 
lation of  the  three  Church  papers  (two  English  and  one 
German)  was  44,374  copies,  one  copy  for  every  fourteen 
Church  members;  in  1881,  that  of  the  eleven  Church 
papers  (nine  English,  one  German,  and  one  Swedish)  was 
170,000  copies,  one  copy  for  every  nine  members.  In  1851, 
one  Sunday-school  paper,  the  Sunday-school  Advocate,  had 
a  circulation  of  90,000 ;  in  1881  the  circulation  of  the  six 
Sunday-school  papers  (three  English,  two  German,  and  one 
Swedish)  was  447,546  copies,  and  the  circulation  of  the 
three  English  and  one  German  Berean  Lesson  Helps, 
which  have  superseded  the  old-time  Question  Books,  was 


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1,437,122  copies  (105,547  Sunday-school  Journals,  1,081.775 
Lesson  Leaves,  and  249,800  other  Helps).  This  statement 
would  not  be  complete  without  mention  of  the  fact  that  all 
these  periodicals  have  kept  pace  with  the  progress  of  the 
periodical  press  of  the  country ;  it  should  be  particularly 
noted  that  while  the  circulation  of  our  Church  papers  has 
quadrupled  since  1851,  their  size  has  been  doubled,  thereby 
affording  the  readers  a  far  greater  variety  of  reading- 
matter  while  its  volume  is  eight-fold,  possibly  ten-fold, 
greater  than  thirty  years  ago. 

These  facts,  which  indicate  the  progress  of  our  peri- 
odical literature,  gratifying  as  it  has  been,  can  not  be 
separated  from  those  which  indicate  that  the  circulation 
is  below  what  it  ought  to  be.  Within  the  conferences 
in  the  Northern  States  and  Territories  our  English  Church 
papers  average  one  copy  for  every  eight  members  of  the 
English-speaking  Churches.  No  account  can  be  taken 
here  of  the  so-called  independent  papers;  loyal  as  they 
may  be  to  Methodist  doctrines,  they  can  hardly  be  loyal 
to  the  Methodist  plan  for  a  complete  Church  literature  ; 
and  they  can  not  be  a  fitting  and  profitable  substitute  for 
the  official  Church  papers.  The  circulation  of  our  En- 
glish Church  papers  —  one  copy  to  eight  members — com- 
pares favorably  with  that  of  similar  papers  of  other  de- 
nominations ;  but  the  Christian  Apologist  averages  two 
copies  for  every  five  members  of  the  German  Churches. 
The  official  Methodist  papers,  the  home-papers  of  the 
Church,  are  just  as  helpful  to  English-speaking  Method- 
ists as  to  German  Methodists,  and  they  are  equally  im- 
portant in  the  home,  whatever  language  be  spoken  there. 
Surely,  in  view  of  the  number  of  subscribers  to  the 
Apologist,  it  is  possible  to  double  the  aggregate  circulation 
of  the  nine  Advocates,  and  it  will  be  done  when  all  the 
preachers  put  their  hand  to  the  work.  One  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  Church  papers  making  their  weekly  visit  to 
homes  that  are  now  without  any  thoroughly  Methodistic 


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literature — who  can  estimate  the  result  on  the  benevolent 
enterprises  and  spiritual  life  of  our  Church ! 

The  circulation  of  ■  the  Berean  Lesson  Leaves  compared 
with  the  average  attendance  of  the  scholars  is  relatively 
large;  the  Sunday-school  Journal  averages  one  copy  for 
every  two  officers  and  teachers,  and  the  Sunday-school 
papers  one  for  every  four  scholars  in  our  Sunday-schools. 
It  is  presumable  that  .most  Sunday-schools  are  supplied 
with  lesson-helps  and  papers  of  some  kind ;  hence,  many 
have  not  those  that  are  published  under  the  careful  su- 
pervision of  the  Church.  If  a  Methodist  Sunday-school 
should  have  Methodist  teachers,  it  also  should  have  Meth- 
odist lesson-helps  and  papers — not  sectarian,  but  denomina- 
tional—  those  that  uniformly  and  faithfully  present  the 
Methodist  doctrinal  view  wherever  the  lesson  contains  a 
doctrine  about  which  the  denominations  hold  different 
views.  The  whole  influence  of  a  Methodist  Sunday-school 
should  be  in  harmony  with  the  teaching  of  the  Methodist 
pulpit  and  with  the  Church -life  of  the  congregation,  and 
this  will  be  entirely  so  only  when  the  literature  of  the 
school — the  lesson-helps,  the  papers,  the  library-books,  and 
the  songs — are  Methodistic  in  matter  and  spirit.  The 
thorough  denominational  equipment  of  our  Sunday-schools 
depends  in  large  measure  upon  the  practical  interest  of  the 
preachers  in  the  matter.  There  are  few  Sunday-school 
boards  that  Avill  persist  in  using  lesson-helps  and  papers 
from  an  irresponsible  press  after  the  pastor  has  presented 
the  important  reasons  in  favor  of  the  trustworthy  and  su- 
perior publications  of  the  Church. 

The  Tracts  of  our  Church  have  been  carefully  revised, 
new  ones  issued,  and  all  put  in  attractive  form,  so  the  list 
furnishes  what  is  needed  to  meet  every  kind  of  evangel- 
istic and  pastoral  work.  The  Discipline  provides  for  their 
use  in  every  pastoral  charge  and  for  the  collection  of 
means  for  their  gratuitous  distribution  wherever  opportu- 
nity offers.    They  can  reach  those  who  seldom  or  never 


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hear  the  Gospel,  and  tell  the  story  of  the  cross  in  homes 
iu  which  religious  literature  is  unknown.  Let  pastors 
make  their  utility  understood,  and  our  people  will  provide 
means  for  their  wider  circulation. 

The  increase  in  the  sale  of  our  books  has  not  kept  pace 
with  the  increase  in  the  circulation  of  our  periodicals.  This 
may  arise  in  part  from  the  fact  that  books  are  necessarily 
more  costly ;  but  is  there  not  an  opinion  prevalent  in  many 
communities  that  the  books  may  be  dispensed  with  where 
there  is  a  supply  of  papers?  This  is  a  capital,  and  too 
often  a  fatal,  mistake ;  valuable  as  Methodist  periodicals 
are,  they  can  not  fill  the  place  of  our  books,  whether  in 
the  home  or  Sunday-school.  With  all  the  progress  made  by 
the  secular  magazine  and  newspaper,  they  at  best  furnish 
only  a  fragmentary  literature,  transitory  in  character  as  well 
as  form  ;  numerous  and  popular  as  these  have  become,  the 
press  still  teems  with  books,  and  public  libraries  are  main- 
tained, solely  because  periodicals  alone  can  not  supply  the 
wants  of  a  reading  and  thoughtful  people.  This  fact  is 
not  less  marked  in  the  field  of  religious  literature,  as  is  evi- 
dent from  the  number  of  books  on  religious  and  cognate 
subjects  printed  and  sold,  and  as  may  be  further  seen  by  a 
comparison  of  religious  books  with  religious  periodicals, 
keeping  in  mind  their  respective  scope,  purpose,  and  pos- 
sible benefits.  Methodist  periodicals  exert  a  potent  influ- 
ence for  good  wherever  they  go,  but  every  denominational 
interest  requires  that  the  books  be  circulated  as  well. 
Methodist  books  and  periodicals  together  form  the  unit  of 
Methodist  literature ;  they  each  have  their  mission  and 
should  have  their  place  in  every  Methodist  home,  society, 
and  Sunday-school. 

Why,  then,  is  there  a  more  active  and  general  interest 
maintained  among  the  preachers  in  the  circulation  of  the 
periodicals  than  of  the  books?  Some  may  underestimate 
the  importance  of  religious  books  as  means  of  edification; 
some  may  not  consider  how  few  persons  are  likely  to  pro- 


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cure  such  books  unless  their  attention  be  directed  to  them, 
and  how  limited  are  the  opportunities  of  most  persons  to 
purchase  them ;  some  may  think  that  the  periodicals  are 
more  directly  helpful  in  the  general  work  of  the  Church  ; 
but,  really,  in  most  cases,  does  not  the  indisposition  to 
push  the  sale  of  the  books  arise  chiefly  from  a  feeling  that 
it  is  purely  a  business  transaction?  Have  not  many  who 
were  once  quite  active  in  this  work  become  inactive  because 
of  this  notion?  Have  not  many  spent  years  in  the  minis- 
try without  offering  to  sell  a  book,  because  they  have  only 
thought  of  it  as  a  secular  matter,  and  have  taken  it  for 
granted  that  the  people  regarded  it  in  the  same  light? 

It  is  not  a  mere  secular  matter ;  it  involves  some  of  the 
elements  of  business,  just  as  does  church  building  and  the 
like  in  which  the  pastor  usually  is  the  most  active  person, 
and  it  is  as  eminently  a  Church-work.  The  Discipline  dis- 
countenances every  thiug  that  tends  toward  secularizing 
the  ministry,  but  it  makes  it  the  pastor's  duty  to  see  that 
his  society  is  supplied  with  books,  as  well  as  other  Meth- 
odist literature.  The  preacher  who  labors  to  secure  a 
Church  library  or  a  Sunday-school  library,  or  offers  the 
books  for  sale  to  the  people,  does  so  through  a  desire  to 
serve  the  highest  interests  of  those  concerned.  His  motive 
makes  it  a  pastoral,  not  a  secular  work.  His  chief  aim  is 
to  do  good  to  the  young  and  old  by  bringing  them  into 
companionship  with  the  best  men  and  women  of  the  past 
and  present — those  whose  lives  have  blessed  the  world,  and 
whose  thoughts,  treasured  in  the  books,  are  the  richest 
legacy  of  the  Church.  He  is  moved  in  this  by  the  spirit 
of  the  true  pastor,  and  thereby,  as  the  Church  rightly  ex- 
pects him  to  do,  brings  into  his  own  field  of  labor  the  un- 
dying inflence  of  what  is  strongest  and  best  in  the  thoughts 
and  deeds  of  the  great  and  good. 

The  amount  of  books  sold  show  that  not  a  few  preach- 
ers appreciate  and  improve  their  opportunity  of  doing  great 
good  by  inducing  the  people  to  supply  their  Sunday-schools 


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with  libraries  and  their  homes  with  good  books.  Other 
facts  already  stated  show  that  not  a  few  preachers  are  fail- 
ing to  do  what  might  be  done,  and  in  their  fields  there  is 
a  dearth  of  Church  literature.  Experience  has  demon- 
strated that  the  extent  to  which  the  people  purchase  books 
for  their  homes  and  Sunday-schools  is  usually  determined 
by  the  preachers'  interest  in  the  matter.  What  would  be 
the  result  in  a  single  decade  should  all  the  preachers  give 
to  the  circulation  of  our  books  only  a  reasonable  share  of 
their  time  and  attention  ?  How  much  could  and  would  be 
done  in  the  organization  of  Church  and  Sunday-school 
libraries ;  how  few  Methodist  homes  would  there  be  with- 
out some  of  the  books  of  the  Church ;  and  as  compared 
with  the  present,  how  much  more  securely  wTould  our  peo- 
ple, young  and  old,  be  guarded  against  a  pernicious  litera- 
ture by  the  presence  of  that  which  is  pure  and  ennobling! 

The  Book  Concerns  in  New  York  and  Cincinnati,  owned 
and  controlled  by  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  form 
the  largest  denominational  publishing  house  in  America, 
if  not  in  the  world;  they  are  the  direct  result  of  the  far- 
reaching  plans  of  the  founders  of  American  Methodism  for 
the  production  and  circulation  of  a  Methodist  literature. 
The  facts  show  that  this,  the  oldest  of  our  connectional 
agencies,  has  kept  pace  with  the  general  progress  of  the 
Church.  Here  she  has  the  capital  and  facilities  to  pro- 
duce under  her  own  supervision,  all  needful  literature  for 
her  thirty-five  hundred  thousand  communicants  and  Sun- 
day-school scholars.  This  literature  is  being  produced  in 
all  necessary  forms  and  in  many  languages.  The  extent 
of  its  usefulness  depends  upon  the  extent  to  which  the 
books  and  periodicals  are  put  into  circulation,  and  this  the 
Church,  by  her  time-honored  Wesleyan  plan,  has  commit- 
ted to  her  preachers,  those  who  are  nearest  to  the  people, 
who  have  their  largest  confidence  and  who  may  best  under- 
stand their  wants. 

J.  M.  WALDEN. 


WHY  METHODISM  PB1NTS. 


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IV. 

WHY  METHODISM  PRINTS. 

There  is  a  providential  reason  why  our  Church  is  thor- 
oughly equipped  for  service.  We  believe  that  Methodism 
has  by  no  means  completed  her  mission.  She  is  just  en- 
tering upon  her  grand  world-work.  Fifty  years  ago  "  the 
people  called  Methodists"  were  simply  tolerated  by  fellow- 
workers.  The  Church  was  organized  as  if  no  other  Church 
cared  to  co-operate  with  her.  We  were  compelled  to  pro- 
vide our  own  missionary,  tract,  Sunday-school,  Church 
extension,  aud  Bible  societies.  The  conduct  of  these  soci- 
eties implied  the  printing-press.  Inter-church  toleration 
presently  improved,  so  that  the  abolition  of  our  Methodist 
Bible  Society  was  expedient  and  safe ;  but  the  Church  is 
so  large  and  her  plans  are  so  comprehensive  that  our  sep- 
arate organization  is  as  complete  as  if  there  were  no  other 
Church  on  the  planet. 

This  is  defensible  and  philosophical,  because  providen- 
tial. Every  Christian  should  thus  hold  himself  prepared 
for  all  service,  on  the  correct  theory  that  God  may  at  any 
moment  call  him  to  unanticipated  duty  in  unforeseen 
directions.  Consistent  with  the  highest  and  frankest  fra- 
y  ternity  towards  all  the  hosts  of  Christianity,  each  separate 
Church  should  be  equipped,  like  co-operating  corps  oVarmee, 
with  infantry,  cavalry,  artillery,  and  munitions,  and  hold 
itself  ready  for  instant  independent  yet  related  service. 

We  love  to  speak  of  our  Church  as  a  child  of  Provi- 
dence. Nobody  planned  our  body  ecclesiastical  in  advance, 
as  architects  conceive  a  vast  edifice  before  a  stone  is  laid. 
Every  one  of  our  present  vast  departments  of  methodized 


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labor  came  as  an  original  tentative  hint  to  the  men  who 
asked  God  to  give  them  generalship.  Trial  and  experi- 
ment condemned  some  of  our  early  devices,  while  the  wiser 
items  were  approved  by  experience,  and  enlarged  as  God 
set  his  seal  to  the  original  conception.  We  boast  not  when 
we  say  that  not  even  that  huge  engine  of  propagandism 
which  gives  coherence  to  Roman  Catholicism  in  all  lands  is 
nearly  so  well  organized  as  is  our  own  Church  machinery. 
Our  comparative  excellence  lies  in  the  fact  that  our  sys- 
tem, as  huge  and  commanding  as  it  certainly  is,  has  not 
a  trace  of  absolutism  in  its  genesis  or  later  success.  The 
entire  organism  is  purely  voluntary,  and  is  indorsed  and 
accepted  by  intelligent  people  because  it  succeeds  on  its 
merits.  Those  who  doubt  should  look  the  facts  over  again 
before  rendering  a  final  adverse  verdict.  There  is  no 
manner  of  doubt  that  some  people  estimate  their  own 
Methodist  Church  too  lightly,  simply  because  they  have 
not  penetrated  the  providential  theory  of  its  rise  and 
progress. 

Methodism  -prints.  There  is  no  doubt  of  that  fact. 
Why  she  prints  is  explained  very  naturally.  John  Wes- 
ley was  a  seer.  When  he  was  not  praying  or  preaching, 
he  was  staring  into  the  face  of  a  printed  page.  Amid 
his  prodigious  labors  for  the  Church,  he  did  an  immense 
amount  of  reading.  Few  men  in  literature  have  been  such 
judges  of  books  as  was  our  founder.  He  knew  the  good 
by  instinct,  and  repelled  th©>  bad  book  as  an  alert  con- 
science rebukes  advancing  sin.  The  invented  printing- 
press  with  its  rude  appliances  came — but  not  by  chance — 
in  the  very  nick  of  time  to  make  Luther's  work  possible. 
When  God  sent  that  greatest  ecclesiastical  event  since  the 
advent  of  Christ — Methodism — into  the  world,  the  im- 
proved printing-press  and  cheaper  book  made  John  Wes- 
ley's work  practicable.  Therefore,  just  as  great  railway 
magnates  outfit  their  own  "special  cars,"  so  Wesley  fitted 
up  his  own  private  carriage  that  he  might  read  comfort- 


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ably  while  he  flew  over  the  kingdom.  Presently,  dissat- 
isfied with  books  as  they  were,  he  began  to  write  and 
re-write  and  edit  books  for  his  people.  Next  in  order,  he 
began  to  own  presses,  which  he  employed  to  carry  help, 
suggestion,  warning,  and  zeal  to  his  rapidly  multiplying 
societies. 

Some  active  minds  then,  as  also  in  modern  times,  won- 
dered why  Methodism  did  not  content  itself  with  what 
other  people  printed.  When  our  Book  Concern  was  in  full 
operation  nearly  fifty  years  ago,  it  was  proposed  to  abolish 
our  Church  presses  and  confine  our  reading  to  that  which 
others  would  contract  to  print  for  us.  Even  now  it  is  oc- 
casionally said  that  our  Church  might  as  well  operate  rail- 
roads and  conduct  banks  as  to  own  and  superintend  print- 
ing-offices. The  suggestion  would  be  valid  if  the  financial 
results  of  railroading  and  banking  and  printing  were  the 
central  thought  and  motive.  We  do  print  on  the  same 
philosophy  that  occasionally  moves  a  Church  or  Sunday- 
school  to  charter  a  train  for  a  specific  excursion  and  for 
definite  results.  When  a  Methodist  party  makes  its  plans 
for  a  day,  and  wishes  to  control  the  hours  of  starting  and 
return,  and  particularly  desires  to  determine  who  shall  be 
passengers  and  favored  guests,  it  gees  into  the  railway 
business,  induced  by  the  same  motives  that  sanction  the 
permanent  existence  of  distinctive  Methodist  printing. 

We  get  a  suggestive  hint  in  the  fact  that  two  literary 
institutions  in  this  country  possess  a  catalogue  of  over 
seven  hundred  separate  volumes  of  books  written  in  oppo- 
sition to  Methodism.  We  happen  to  know  that  this  large 
list  does  not  contain  all  extant  anti-Wesleyan  literature. 
These  volumes  were  written  under  the  stimulus  of  men 
who  did  not  love  our  Church,  and  the  physical  fact  of  the 
printing  proves  that  the  kingdom  of  printing-ink  must 
needs  be  taken  by  Methodist  violence.  Methodism  was 
young,  and  Methodists  were  too  poor  to  buy  dear  books 
written  in  their  defense.     A  hundred  considerations  led 


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"Wesley  to  supply  books  from  his  English  presses  for  our 
people,  and  equally  led  our  early  workers  to  organize 
printing  facilities  for  American  Methodists  long  before 
they  began  to  build  and  dedicate  houses  of  worship.  We 
can  not  forget  that  the  Frenchy  flavor  that  tainted  English 
society  and  literature  after  the  restoration  of  Charles  com- 
pelled Wesley  to  provide  cleaner  things  for  his  people. 
The  entire  tide  was  against  evangelical  Christianity.  If 
society  and  the  press  have  pure  features  in  this  country, 
the  credit  must  be  shared  with  the  influence  of  the  Wes- 
leyan  printing-presses  which  came  to  evangelize  the  New 
World. 

Scrutiny  will  sanction  this  broad  claim.  While  we 
thank  God,  as  Lincoln  did,  for  all  the  Churches,  we  be- 
lieve that  if  Wesleyan  influences  were  subtracted  from  the 
warp  and  woof  of  American  civilization,  the  republic 
would  be  far  less  unlike  the  states  of  Europe,  both  in  the 
instincts  in  its  liberty  and  the  tone  of  its  society.  Meth- 
odism came  with  the  vanguard,  and  assisted  quietly  and 
almost  unconsciously  in  shaping  every  campaign  as  the 
hosts  flowed  westward.  Even  then,  as  now,  our  power 
and  influence  were  apparently  more  in  the  pulpit  and  on 
the  platform ;  but  we  believe  the  paramount  influence  was 
in  the  tract,  leaflet,  biography,  hymn-book,  and  Scripture, 
which  came  from  Methodist  presses,  and  were  read  and 
read  again  when  the  itinerant  was  absent  or  asleep.  We 
make  this  point  coolly  and  confidently.  Men,  if  asked  to 
nominate  the  greatest  of  silent  powers  over  modern  mind, 
are  apt  to  name  the  daily  press  of  the  republic.  We  are 
sure  that  the  paramount  power  is  in  the  hands  of  the 
weekly  press,  and  claim  that  the  weekly  religious  pres-  is 
the  potentate  which  the  enemies  of  good  would  first  strike 
down.  Our  claim  is  based  both  upon  the  larger  number 
of  issues  of  the  weekly  press  and  upon  the  clear-cut,  inde- 
pendent, and  better-toned  deliverances  of  that  press. 

In  the  interests  of  the  very  facts  involved  we  make 


WHY  METHODISM  PRINTS. 


53 


this  assertion.  It  is  not  true  that  the  Church  press  is  de- 
voted to  dogma  and  is  useless  as  an  element  in  journalism 
for  practical  purposes.  The  average  secular  paper  is  con- 
fessedly devoted  to  a  secular  and  competing  purpose.  It 
is  the  organ  of  a  party  or  aspiring  person.  It  seeks  po- 
litical votes  for  political  and  party  ends.  As  Christian 
citizens,  we  believe  in  God  as  the  head  of  our  nation,  and, 
as  our  Father,  he  is  regarded  as  the  head  of  a  particular 
family  should  be  held  by  actual,  loving  children.  If  we 
are  entitled  to  any  respect,  if  we  are  ordinarily  honest 
men  and  women,  we  dare  not  ask  God  to  bless  our  na- 
tional American  household  unless  we  propose  to  sanctify 
his  day,  to  make  laws  in  harmony  with  his  revelation,  to 
discourage  Sunday  travel  and  riot,  to  limit  and  defeat  the 
power  of  strong  drink,  to  preserve  the  marriage  relation, 
and  to  prefer  pure  men  for  public  office.  The  facts  are, 
while  parties  profess  to  respect  the  Churches,  the  whisky 
ring  is  practically  more  potent  in  nearly  all  States  than 
is  any  single  Church.  Scarcely  a  single  secular  paper 
openly  opposes  the  power  of  the  slums  and  of  the  corrupt- 
ing saloon  in  party  politics ;  Sunday  observance  is  sneered 
at  by  the  average  daily  paper ;  the  most  successful  jour- 
nals and  magazines  dare  not  or  care  not  expressly  to  de- 
fend evangelical  doctrines,  while  the  overshadowing  uni- 
versities in  the  land  openly  teach  nothing  save  that  which 
discredits  revelation. 

We  do  thank  God  for  all  Churches,  and  we  honor  their 
grand  work ;  but  it  remains  true  that  we  discharge  the 
highest  duties  to  catholic  evangelicity  by  being  sturdily 
true  to  the  body  in  which  God  has  cast  our  lot.  The 
soldier  serves  best  as  artilleryman  when  he  gives  heart, 
soul,  body,  and  substance  to  that  arm  of  the  grand  army. 
The  Church,  as  a  Church,  needs  to  fortify  its  schools  and 
pulpits  and  presses  as  preparatory  to  the  national  struggle 
for  truth  and  righteousness  which  is  even  now  dawning 
upon  us. 


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Passing,  with  an  honoring  salute  and  a  "  Thank  God," 
all  the  Churches  and  all  the  other  grand  appliances  in  our 
own  Church,  we  earnestly  exhort  every  member  to  give 
room  and  heart  to  the  magnificent  press  system  which  is 
the  admiration  of  all  sister  Churches.  Methodism  is  con- 
nectional.  It  prefers  to  administer  in  every  locality  in  re- 
lations to  Wesleyan  world-work.  The  strong  everywhere 
aids  the  weak ;  the  weakest  man  and  the  youngest  Church 
are  braced  alike  by  relationship  to  the  strongest  and  oldest. 

As  a  part  of  our  system,  we  have  books  pledged  to  our 
Church  in  the  name  of  the  common  King.  We  have  a 
system  of  Christian  Advocates  which  represent  the  most 
independent,  progressive,  alert,  aggressive,  and  successful 
in  modern  journalism.  They  are  a  unit  as  "Advocates" 
of  every  thing  "  Christian."  Some  persons  too  hastily  con- 
clude that,  being  "  official,"  they  are  in  bonds,  and  there- 
fore not  "free."  On  the  contrary,  their  very  plan  and 
surroundings  make  them  the  freest  on  earth.  It  is  argued 
that  they  must  please  and  praise  the  powers  that  be,  or 
the  editors  will  be  deposed,  and  that,  consequently,  the 
bread-and-butter  argument  is  too  potent.  Not  so.  The 
individual  nominally  "independent"  paper  is  immediately 
sensitive  to  its  subscription-list,  which  so  quickly  resents 
adverse  opinion.  It  is  not  conscious  that  it  has  a  broth- 
erhood of  interlinked  fellow-advocates  to  "strengthen  weak 
knees."  We  know  of  not  a  single  beneficent  issue  that 
has  been  carried  in  spite  of  the  Church  official  press,  or 
of  a  step  in  human  progress  that  has  not  been  grandly 
forwarded  by  our  papers.  In  early  days  slavery  was  in 
some  degree  defended  by  the  official  papers ;  but  that 
came  of  their  small  numbers  and  the  absence  of  Northern 
competing  thrift  in  that  particular.  As  between  the  dif- 
ferent official  editors,  no  competition  could  be  more  thor- 
ough, and  as  between  different  systems  the  official  editor 
can  best  afford  to  be  personally  independent.  With  re- 
spect to  deference  for  the  alleged  powers  that  be,  we  make 


WHY  METHODISM  PRINTS. 


bold  to  doubt  that  "  there  be"  any  Methodist  "  powers" 
more  powerful  than  the  editors  themselves. 

Our  papers  are  already  supported  and  patronized  be- 
yond compare.  It  is  no  question  whether,  for  the  Church's 
rather  than  the  papers'  sake,  there  be  not  room  for  a  new 
era  of  unprecedented  Advocate-reading.  We  claim  that  no 
department  of  Methodist  work  is  more  successful  than  are 
our  presses.  Our  papers  keep  pace  with  advancing  popu- 
lation and  national  prosperity.  Inferior  prints  cost  a  little 
less ;  but  when  panic  and  hard  times  wither  other  ventures, 
the  official  paper  goes  straight  forward,  without  increase  of 
price  or  abatement  of  valuable  contents.  Our  papers  are 
entitled  to  patronage  and  Methodist  favor  because  they  are 
Methodist!  In  a  manly,  fair  sense,  the  Methodist  organ 
has  a  claim  in  a  Methodist  family  as  legitimate  and  valid 
as  that  held  by  a  Methodist  family  in  a  Methodist  Church. 
We  are  members  one  of  another.  Organization  is  as  vital 
to  an  army  as  is  powder.  Methodist  efficiency  depends  on 
glad  loyalty  to  every  item  in  Methodist  methods.  The  man 
who  sneers  at  the  claims  of  individual  Churches,  and  shirks 
specific  obligation  on  the  plea  of  his  enlightened  "catho- 
licity," has  ceased  to  be  valuable  in  any  Christian  work.  As 
well  might  he  desert  his  place  in  the  organized  line  of  battle, 
and  go  to  shooting  squirrels  under  pretense  of  serving  his 
country.  As  well  extinguish  our  light-house  system  on  the 
sea-coast,  and  essay  to  save  all  mariners  by  burning  tallow- 
candles  held  aloft  by  individual  hands. 

The  most  devout  man  is  useful  in  proportion  to  his 
knowledge  of  his  just  relations  to  his  brethren.  The  man 
who  reads  is  conscious  that  God  is  working  mightily 
through  the  related,  fraternal,  co-operating  Churches. 
From  books  he  will  gain  the  regulating  philosophy,  and 
from  the  paper  he  notes  the  progress  of  the  visible  king- 
dom. The  man  or  Church  that  sees  how  God  favors  the 
Church  yonder  notes  the  employed  means  of  success,  and 
takes  heart  again.    Our  grand  army  should  feel  the  touch 


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of  individual  marching  elbows,  and  catch  the  inspiration 
of  co-operating  brotherhood. 

The  argument  that  sanctions  the  wise  introduction  of 
Church  printing-presses  remains  to  defend  and  explain 
their  continued  employment.  No  problem  is  more  vital  to 
our  Church  than  that  which  relates  to  the  replanting  of 
the  old-time  interest  in  the  scheme  in  the  hearts  of  our 
people  at  large. 

ARTHUR  EDWARDS. 


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V. 

WHAT  WE  READ,  AND  WHAT  WE  SHOULD 
READ. 

We  can  tell  more  easily  what  we  read  than  what  we 
should  read. 

Of  making  books  and  printing  newspapers  and  other 
periodical  literature,  there  is  no  end.  The  steam-press 
does  its  work  speedily  and  well.  It  is  a  mighty  agency 
for  good  and  evil.  Its  leaves  are  not  always  for  the  heal- 
ing of  the  nations.  It,  however,  preaches,  teaches,  prays, 
and  sings.  It  has  a  thousand  tongues  and  hands.  It  toils 
on  and  on,  and  day  and  night  and  Summer  and  Winter 
are  all  the  same  to  it. 

The  nations  feed  upon  its  words;  kiugs  and  counselors 
fear  it;  and  the  tyrant  trembles  as  he  hears  its  fearful 
denunciations.  It  makes  all  professions,  commerce,  and 
labor  contribute  to  its  support.  It  reproduces  for  us  the 
wisdom  of  the  past,  and  lays  by  in  store  the  results  of  the 
present  for  all  future  generations. 

The  people  read.  b  What  do  they  read  ?  Literature, 
science,  art;  they  also  read  politics,  theology,  and  even,  a 
few,  metaphysics.    Most  of  the  people  read  fiction. 

All  reading  may  be  divided  into  two  classes, — the  solid 
and  fictitious.  Four-fifths,  probably,  read  the  latter.  This 
conclusion  is  reached  after  considering  the  character  of  the 
books  on  sale  in  book-stores  and  the  reports  of  custodians 
of  public  libraries.  We  do  not  here  refer  to  school-books 
and  reading  in  the  line  of  the  professions.  The  lawyer 
reads  his  text-books  on  law,  the  minister  on  theology,  and 
the  physician  on  medicine  and  surgery,  while  the  merchant 


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reads  the  daily  reports  of  the  markets,  and  the  agricultu- 
rist the  prices  of  farm  and  garden  products  and  pub- 
lications giving  specific  information  in  regard  to  their 
production.  We  ask,  What  do  we  read  for  amusement, 
pleasure,  and  of  habit  ?  Only  a  few  read  the  solid  and 
the  true,  and  not  the  ideal,  fanciful,  and  imaginative. 
We  call  history,  biography,  geography,  travels,  works  on 
art  (such  as  painting,  statuary,  decorative,  ceramic  achieve- 
ments), and  works  on  agriculture  and  science,  solid.  The- 
ology should  also  be  included  in  this  list.  The  publications 
of  the  Methodist  Book  Concern  at  New  York  and  Cincin- 
nati, and  those  of  other  respectable  publishers,  may  be 
found  at  prices  within  the  reach  of  the  poorest.  All  tastes 
are  provided  for,  and  may  be  accommodated  in  these  rich 
depositories  of  wisdom. 

What  better  enjoyment  can  we  have  for  a  few  hours 
each  week,  of  an  intellectual  character,  than  reading  the 
records  of  the  past  as  given  in  the  works  of  Kollin,  Gib- 
bon (revised),  Froude,  Macaulay,  and  other  standard  his- 
torians of  Europe,  and  those  written  in  our  own  land  by 
Hildreth,  Prescott,  and  Bancroft?  what  better  pleasure 
than  reading  the  history  of  the  Christian  Church  by  Black- 
*    burn,  or  of  the  Reformation  by  D'Aubigne  ? 

Poetry  comes  under  the  head  of  solid  reading  when  it 
is  descriptive  and  instructive.  What  a  list  of  acknowl- 
edged gifted  ones  could  be  given  ! — Horace,  Homer, Virgil, 
Chaucer,  Spenser,  Shakespeare,  Milton,  Young,  Cowper, 
Pope,  Watts,  Wesley,  Montgomery,  Bonar;  and  Bryant, 
Longfellow,  Whittier,  Holmes,  and  many  others  who  have 
sung  sweetly  and  grandly. 

With  the  literary,  scientific,  religious,  and  artistic  lore 
of  the  ages  knocking  for  admission  to  our  homes  and 
hearts,  wTe  are  guilty  before  God  if  we  do  not  open  to  them. 
When  we  hear  persons  speak  of  history,  travels,  poetry, 
and  the  natural  sciences  as  dry  and  uninteresting,  we  fail 
to  understand  the  import  of  their  words. 


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The  daily  and  weekly  newspaper  should  be  in  every 
home,  due  care  being  exercised  that  only  the  best  enter. 
The  world  we  live  in  is  a  great,  active,  progressive  pres- 
ent, and  only  by  reading  a  compendium  of  its  doings  can 
we  keep  pace  with  it.  The  Church  is  in  the  world, 
although  not  of  it,  and  is  moving  forward,  winning  glori- 
ous conquests.  Of  its  aggressive  work,  of  its  opposition, 
aud  of  its  successes,  we  may  read  reliable  and  interesting 
accounts  in  our  Church  papers. 

The  great  majority  of  religious  people  read  more  or  less 
fiction.  A  work  is  not  always  objectionable  because  it  is 
"  a  novel,"  and  we  are  not  opposed  to  reading  this  class 
of  literature  as  an  amusement,  provided  the  composition  is 
good  and  a  healthy  moral  tone  pervades  it. 

Fancy  and  imagination  have  much  to  do  with  the 
happiness  of  the  mind,  and  an  appeal  to  these  is  not  nec- 
essarily wrong.  If  the  controlling  interest  of  a  novel  is 
love,  it  should  not  be  condemned,  for  God  is  the  author  of 
conjugal  love;  and  if  the  narrations  and  descriptions  of  it 
are  pure  and  rational,  and  the  ideal  of  it  within  the  limits 
of  fact,  its  contemplation  may  not  only  be  a  pleasure,  but 
lead  to  happy  results.  It  always  needs  the  shaping  influ- 
ence of  Christian  morals  and  restraints,  and  should  be  not 
only  properly  treated  in  literary  productions,  but  in  the 
pulpit  and  on  the  rostrum. 

Without  the  moral  moulding  of  these  influences,  love 
becomes  a  degrading  passion,  not  far  removed  from  blind 
instinct ;  with  these,  it  gives  dignity  to  the  human  form 
and  elevation  to  the  soul,  creating  an  atmosphere  of  beauty 
in  which  to  dwell. 

With  this  recognition  of  a  natural  desire  for  novel- 
reading,  we  must  protest  against  the  practice  and  tend- 
ency of  the  incoming  generation.  How  few  youths  volun- 
tarily read  history,  science,  biography,  or  poetry !  If  they 
read  history  at  all,  fact  must  be  diluted  and  attenuated 
with  fancy  to  an  extent  that  even  the  youthful  reader  is 


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compelled  to  ask,  What  is  truth  ?  Because  of  this  style  of 
history,  the  names  of  the  great  and  good  in  Church  and 
State,  by  the  most  of  our  young  people  are  considered  no 
more  historical  than  those  of  Sinbad  the  sailor,  Robinson 
Crusoe,  or  Captain  Kidd,  the  pirate. 

The  young  reader  may  ask,  "  Since  you  do  not  condemn 
novels,  only  those  which  are  bad,  how  shall  I  know  what 
is  good  or  bad  unless  I  read  it  ?" 

We  do  not  find  out  what  is  poisonous  in  an  apothecary's 
shop  by  tasting.  This  would  be  dangerous,  and  might 
prove  to  be  a  fatal  mistake.  It  is  not  safe  for  a  young 
person  to  select  and  read  at  will. 

But  since  the  book -stores  abound  with  novels,  and  they 
are  peddled  on  every  street-corner  and  on  every  train,  and 
are  found  in  abundance  in  some  of  our  libraries,  it  may  be 
best  to  give  a  few  rules,  the  observance  of  which  will  be 
of  great  benefit, 

Do  not  read  the  cheap  fiction-  which  is  known  as  dime 
and  nickel  novels.  They  are,  without  an  exception,  pub- 
lished by  unprincipled  and  base  men,  who  only  seek  gain. 
The  books  are  full  of  slang  phrases,  representations  of 
bloody  deeds,  murder,  theft,  perjury,  homicide,  suicide, 
and  horrible  recitals  in  low,  vulgar,  and  often  obscene  and 
profane,  language.  An  examination  of  a  large  number 
warrants  this  statement. 

Ascertain  from  intelligent  and  cultured  Christian  men 
and  women  the  names  of  good  authors  and  of  good  books. 
A  good  man  will  not  write  a  bad  book.  You  can  trust 
the  opinions  of  our  book  agents  and  editors  in  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church.  Not  that  we  would  limit  to 
Methodist  authors,  but  we  would  have  our  people  receive 
the  works  that  have  gone  under  the  review  of  the  pure 
and  cultured  minds  of  the  Church.  We  can  not  under- 
take in  this  chapter  to  give  a  list  of  the  excellent  authors 
whose  interesting  and  often  charming  productions  are  on 
sale  at  the  Methodist  Book  Concerns. 


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Works  of  fiction,  even  the  best,  are  to  be  read  as  we 
take  amusement.  The  rule  should  be  to  read  solid  litera- 
ture. The  importance  of  this  is  evident  when  we  consider 
how  much  there  is  to  be  learned  by  reading  the  best  au- 
thors, and  the  brevity  of  human  life.  At  least  a  dozen 
solid  books  to  one  of  fiction  should  be  read.  Even  this  is 
too  large  a  percentage  of  fictitious  literature,  if  it  causes  a 
distaste  for  the  solid.  To  form  the  habit  of  reading  even 
the  best  novels  is  to  stand  on  dangerous  ground.  The  de- 
sire for  this  class  of  stimulants  increases  as  the  demand  is 
fully  met,  so  that  the  reader  of  fiction  may  become  the 
victim  of  a  morbid  literary  taste.  Thus  time  is  wasted, 
means  misused,  and  talent  brought  into  bondage.  We 
hardly  know  which  is  to  be  pitied  the  more,  the  slave  of 
novel-reading  or  of  alcohol.  Both  stand  in  the  pathway 
of  life,  and  will  inevitably  lead  their  victims  to  moral 
death,  unless  rescued  and  redeemed  by  the  merits  of  Christ. 

The  persistent  reader  of  novels  is  unfitted  for  the  du- 
ties and  realities  of  life.  The  leading  desire  is  for  more 
romance,  more  tragedy,  deception,  revenge,  broken  vows, 
and  murder.  Unless  the  cup  is  filled  to  the  brim  with 
these,  it  is  not  acceptable.  The  drinking  of  its  contents 
never  satisfies.    This  is  excess,  and  brings  sorrow. 

This  kind  of  reading  familiarizes  with  crime ;  and,  as  a 
result,  iniquity  loses  much  that  makes  it  repulsive.  It 
weakens  the  sense  of  right  and  purity,  so  that  temptation 
becomes  formidable,  and  the  power  of  resistance  greatly 
weakened.  Thus  conditioned  it  is  not  unusual  for  individ- 
uals to  become  the  subjects  of  unintentional  imitation,  and 
sin  and  ruin  follow  as  results.  We  object  to  a  very  large 
proportion  of  light  literature  because  it  is  written  in  a 
style  that  degrades  the  taste,  and  because  it  is  usually 
illustrated  by  execrable  art  deformities,  both  in  artistic 
execution  and  in  the  scenes  described.  Daggers,  swords, 
guns,  clubs,  revolvers,  fights,  abductions,  and  all  forms  of 
crime  are  rudely  portrayed.    They  often  border  on  the 


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obscene,  and  would  be  so,  were  it  not  for  the  enforcement  of 
the  law.  These  pictures  fasten  themselves  upon  the  youth- 
ful memory,  and  the  regrets  of  after  years  will  not  erase 
them.  They  are  specters  haunting  it  through  all  the  pe- 
riods of  life.  They  are  demons  of  darkness,  pestilential 
with  moral  death.  They  are  the  conceptions  of  minds 
steeped  in  the  odors  of  Gehenna.  Much  of  crime  is  insti- 
gated by  this  class  of  illustrated  reading.  The  testimony 
of  one  young  man  near  the  gallows  could  truthfully  be  said 
of  very  many  suffering  for  crime,  "  The  impure  novel 
brought  me  to  this." 

The  approaches  of  evil,  to  be  successful,  must  be  grad- 
ual, and  its  true  intention  not  apparent.  It,  like  the  cun- 
ning reptile  hidden  amid  the  beautiful  foliage,  first  charms 
its  innocent  victim,  and  then  devours.  This  serpent  is  in 
nine-tenths  of  the  novels  read  by  our  youth. 

But  what  shall  we  read?  The  best  answer  we  can 
make  to  this  query  is,  Read  the  Bible;  read  any  religious 
literature,  but  above  all,  read  the  Bible. 

The  old  poet  well  describes  it : 

"  If  thou  art  merry,  here  are  airs ; 
If  melancholy,  here  are  prayers; 
If  studious,  here  are  those  things  writ 
Which  may  deserve  the  ablest  wit. 
If  hungry,  here  is  food  divine ; 
If  thirsty,  nectar,  heavenly  wine. 
Read,  then ;  but  first  thyself  prepare 
To  read  with  zeal,  and  mark  with  care ; 
And  when  thou  read'st  what  here  is  writ, 
Let  thy  practice  second  it. 
So  twice  each  precept  thine  shall  be, 
First  in  the  book,  and  next  in  thee." 

Read  carefully  that  which  is  recognized  by  the  Chris- 
tian Church  as  the  best  in  history,  biography,  science,  art, 
and  general  and  religious  literature. 

Is  it  not  the  duty  of  parents  and  guardians,  with  the 
strong  hand  of  authority,  if  need  be,  to  protect  their  chil- 


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dren  and  wards  from  the  poisonous  literature  which  the 
sordid  cunning  of  the  enemies  of  virtue  and  religion  thrust 
into  our  homes  and  schools?  Let  these  retreats  of  our 
youth  be  cleansed  as  by  fire ;  let  the  godless,  vile  stuff  be 
given,  whenever  found,  to  the  flames. 

Children  read,  and  they  should ;  and  interesting  and 
wholesome  productions  should  be  furnished  them.  Much 
of  their  success  in  after  life  depends  upon  the  selection 
made  for  them.  Upon  this  foundation  they  build  for  the 
future,  and  the  question  must  be  settled  by  the  parent 
whether  the  foundations  of  character  and  life  shall  be  laid 
in  the  sand  of  low  sensualism  and  skepticism  or  on  the 
solid  granite  of  purity  and  eternal  truth. 

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VI. 

PERNICIOUS  LITERATURE. 

It  is  as  much  the  duty  of  parents  to  watch  the  books 
and  papers  read  by  their  children  as  it  is  to  be  careful 
concerning  the  food  they  eat.  No  parent  will  knowingly 
give  adulterated  or  poisonous  food  to  his  children ;  nor 
will  any  wise  parent  allow  them  indiscriminately  to  gor- 
mandize on  all  sorts  of  edibles.  He  prefers  to  select  their 
food  for  them,  and  to  train  them  in  those  habits  of  eating 
which  distinguish  the  civilized  man  from  the  savage. 

Yet  many  parents,  wise  in  this,  are  not  equally  wise  in 
selecting  moral  and  intellectual  nourishment.  Their  chil- 
dren are  allowed  to  read  whatever  they  can  find,  and  it  is 
sometimes  boastingly  said  of  them,  "  They  read  every 
thing  they  can  get  hold  of."  This  is  regarded  as  a  mark 
of  precocious  intellect.  It  is  rather  evidence  of  extraor- 
dinary folly,  as  much  so  as  if  they  were  to  eat  every  thing 
they  could  lay  their  hands  on,  wholesome  or  poisonous. 

The  country  is  flooded  with  books  and  papers  for  chil- 
dren and  young  people.  They  are  to  be  found  not  only 
in  book-stores,  but  on  the  news-stands  in  the  streets,  and 
are  peddled  in  the  railway-cars.  They  are  made  attract- 
ive, not  so  much  by  good  paper,  printing,  and  pictures — 
for  many  of  them  are  very  inferior  in  this  respect — as  by 
taking  titles,  bold  head-lines,  and  representations  of  excit- 
ing scenes.  They  are  filled  with  blood-curdling  stories, 
which  tell  of  adventures  with  Indians,  cannibals,  pirates, 
highwaymen,  burglars,  murderers,  smugglers,  and  other 
vile  personages.  These  stories  are  illustrated  by  pictures 
in  which  the  rifle,  the  pistol,  and  the  knife  are  prominent. 


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Lightning,  storms,  earthquakes,  fires,  water-spouts,  wrecks, 
and  every  thing  else  horrible  or  grotesque  in  nature,  are 
depicted.  Ferocious  beasts  and  still  more  ferocious  human 
beings  are  seen  in  every  possible  position  where  hatred, 
revenge,  or  blood-thirstiness  can  place  them. 

These  stories  thus  illustrated  are  educating  thousands 
of  the  children  of  the  present  generation.  They  cultivate 
a  vitiated  taste,  so  that  history  and  truthful  narratives 
and  ordinary  travels  have  but  little  attraction,  lacking,  as 
they  must,  the  highly  spiced  flavoring  of  these  more  pop- 
ular stories.  They  prepare  their  readers  for  deeds  of 
foolish  adventure  and  of  crime.  Every  now  and  then  we 
read  of  youngsters  from  nine  to  twelve  years  old  starting 
away  from  home,  without  parental  knowledge,  to  hunt 
buffalo  or  to  kill  Indians.  They  have  caught  the  fever 
from  the  popular  and  exciting  stories  they  have  read. 

Of  course,  these  little  fellows  soon  come  to  grief,  and 
are  glad  to  get  home  again ;  but  there  are  those  a  few 
years  older  and  richer  in  resources  who  are  not  so  easily 
discouraged.  These  have  an  ambition  to  imitate  the  bold 
burglars,  smugglers,  and  pirates  of  whom  they  have  read, 
and  they  do  not  hesitate  to  rob  where  they  have  the 
chance,  and  then  retire  to  some  recess  in  the  woods,  or 
some  cave  in  the  hill-side,  to  enjoy  their  ill-gotten  booty. 
The  police  in  New  York  City,  a  year  or  two  ago,  unearthed 
a  nest  of  these  young  thieves,  who  had  a  hiding-place 
under  one  of  the  city  wharves,  where  they  deposited  their 
booty  and  lived  luxuriously.  They  were  lads  of  from 
twelve  to  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  were  imitating  the  ex- 
ample of  the  older  villains  of  whom  they  had  read. 

The  story  of  the  Arkansas  Railway  train-robbers  is  still 

fresh  in  the  public  mind.    These  robbers  were  young  men 

from  eighteen  to  twenty-three  years  old,  and  they  admitted 

that  this  sort  of  literature  had  been  their  inspiration. 

They  were  tried,  convicted,  and  sentenced  to  seventy 

years  imprisonment.    An  Arkansas  paper  states  that  one 

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of  them,  not  long  after  entering  the  prison,  became  de- 
mented, the  severity  of  his  sentence  having  produced  de- 
spair. After  speaking  for  awhile  of  his  father,  mother, 
and  sisters,  among  whom  he  imagined  himself  to  be,  his 
face  suddenly  grew  dark,  and,  waving  his  hands  wildly, 
he  began  to  mutter  broken  sentences.  11  Seizing  the  bridle- 
rein,  he  sprang  upon  his  antagonist's  horse,  and  dashed 
away,"  said  he. 

' '  He 's  reading  one  of  those  wild  books  that  we  used 
to  steal  away  and  devour,"  said  one  of  his  companions  in 
crime. 

The  poor,  crazy  fellow  continued  his  recitation  as  fol- 
lows:  "'Halt!'  he  exclaimed,  drawing  a  revolver,  and 
leveling  it  at  the  head  of  young  Horace.  Slowly  and 
sadly  they  left  the  church,  and  walked  along  the  worn 
path  to  the  rude  grave  of  Lawrence.  Standing  near  the 
stone  placed  there  by  the  Indian,  Casper  and  his  fair  com- 
panion— "  And  he  muttered  incoherently,  the  sentence 
dying  away  with  a  deep  groan.  Suddenly  he  raised  him- 
self, looked  intently  toward  the  door,  and  slowly  sank 
back,  dead. 

Thus,  in  the  unconscious  declarations  of  his  dying  hour, 
he  bore  witness  to  the  nature  of  the  mental  stimulant 
which  had  gradually  poisoned  his  soul  and  brought  him  to 
a  felon's  end. 

There  is  a  kind  of  vile  literature,  too  infamous  to  be 
particularly  described,  the  sale  or  which  is  forbidden  by 
law,  though  the  trade  is  carried  on  secretly,  in  spite  of 
law.  The  sensational  books  and  papers  which  are  pub- 
licly exposed  for  sale  create  a  morbid  taste,  which  finds 
its  gratification  in  these  baser  publications.  They  are  ad- 
vertised extensively,  though  secretly,  sometimes  by  means 
of  circulars  sent  by  mail,  sometimes  by  advertisements  of  an 
apparently  innocent  character  inserted  in  the  daily  papers. 
Occasionally  even  the  religious  press  is  thus  used,  unknown 
by  editors  or  publishers,  as  the  following  fact  will  show : 


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Several  years  ago  a  friend  of  the  writer  saw  in  a  relig- 
ious periodical  an  advertisement  of  a  beautiful  toy,  which 
could  be  obtained  by  sending  twenty-five  cents  to  a  certain 
Eastern  city.  He  sent  his  money,  and  obtained  the  toy 
for  his  boy,  a  lad  twelve  years  old.  So  far  every  thing 
was  innocent  and  unsuspicious.  But  with  the  toy  came  a 
circular  recommending  a  tobacco-pipe  purporting  to  have 
certain  advantages  over  ordinary  pipes.  As  he  did  not 
care  to  have  his  boy  use  a  pipe  he  kept  the  circular  for 
himself,  and  began  to  wonder  what  would  come  if  a  pipe 
were  sent  for.  He  did  not  experiment  in  this  direction ; 
but  having  occasion,  a  few  weeks  after,  to  visit  the  city 
from  whence  the  circular  issued,  he  consulted  a  friend,  a 
government  official,  who  told  him  what  his  boy  would 
have  probably  received  if  he  had  sent  for  a  pipe.  With 
the  pipe  would  have  come  a  circular  recommending  a 
book;  and  if  this  book  had  been  ordered,  a  circular  con- 
cerning another  book  would  have  been  sent,  until,  by  this 
gradual  method  of  advertising,  the  vilest  publications  issued 
would  have  been  brought  to  his  attention.  Some  of  these 
circulars  were  given  to  our  friend  by  this  officer,  and  were 
afterward  shown  to  the  writer.  The  immoral  character  of 
the  publications  they  advertise  would  clearly  appear  if  we 
should  mention  their  titles. 

This  is  only  one  of  many  means  devised  by  the  devil 
to  scatter  the  seeds  of  vice,  that  they  may  one  day  grow 
up  and  produce  a  fearful  harvest  of  desolation. 

Parents  should  know  what  reading  their  children  have. 
The  question  should  not  simply  be,  What  will  please?  but, 
What  will  profit?  If  pleasure  and  profit  can  be  combined, 
it  is  well ;  but  pleasure  without  profit  should  be  avoided. 
No  sensible  parent  would  permit  his  children  to  eat  col- 
ored candies  merely  because  they  are  pleased  with  the 
brilliant  hues ;  for  he  knows  that  this  brilliancy  but  ccn 
ceals  the  subtle  poison. 

Even  our  Sunday-school  libraries  need  close  inspection. 


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There  are  such  libraries  where  the  great  majority  of  the 
books  will  be  found  to  consist  of  novels,  and  very  many 
of  them  of  the  trashiest  sort.  The  taste  for  unwholesome 
literature  is  created  in  the  very  place  where,  above  all 
others,  there  ought  to  be  none  but  the  healthiest  influences. 
Those  who  use  such  libraries  have  no  taste  for  useful  read- 
ing. Whatever  of  good  they  may  get  from  the  study  of 
the  Bible  is  neutralized,  in  part  at  least,  by  the  books  they 
take  from  the  library. 

There  need  be  no  danger  feared  from  our  Sunday- 
school  libraries  if  the  provisions  of  our  Discipline  are 
faithfully  carried  out.  Its  language  is  sufficiently  clear: 
"  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  preacher  in  charge,  aided  by 
the  superintendent  and  the  committee  on  Sunday-schools, 
to  decide  as  to  what  books  shall  be  used  in  our  Sunday- 
schools."  (Discipline,  257.)  Where  this  duty  is  faith- 
fully discharged,  there  is  very  seldom  any  ground  for 
complaint.  In  many  instances,  however,  the  selection  of 
library-books  is  left  to  a  committee,  appointed  without  any 
regard  to  the  above-named  requirement  of  the  Discipline. 
Very  often  this  committee  consists  of  persons  who  are  no 
judges  of  books,  who  will  buy  any  thing  that  is  "  cheap;" 
who  are  attracted  by  bright  bindings  and  pictures  and 
taking  titles,  and  who  thus,  with  the  best  intentions,  oft- 
times  buy  a  lot  of  worthless  books  which  ought  to  go  back 
to  the  paper-mill,  or  be  thrust  into  the  fire. 

Our  families  and  our  Sunday-schools  should  be  pro- 
vided with  a  literature  of  the  best  and  purest  kind,  so  that 
their  taste  shall  be  cultivated  and  their  spiritual  nature 
improved.  Above  all,  special  pains  should  be  taken  to 
keep  out  every  book  or  paper  of  an  immoral  or  a  merely 
sensational  character. 

J.  M.  FREEMAN. 


INDISCRIMINA  TE  NO  VEL  -READING.  69 


VII. 

THE  EVILS  OF  INDISCRIMINATE  NOVEL- 
READING. 

"  A  novel  was  a  book 
Thrce-volumed  and  once  read ;  and  oft  crammed  full 
Of  poisonous  error,  blackening  every  page; 
And  oftener  still  of  trifling,  second-hand 
Remark,  and  old,  diseased,  putrid  thought, 
And  miserable  incident ;  at  war 
With  nature,  with  itself  and  truth  at  war; 
Yet  charming  still  the  greedy  reader  on, 
Till  done  he  tried  to  recollect  his  thoughts, 
And  nothing  found  but  dreaming  emptiness." 

Although  there  are  some  noble  exceptions,  which  I 
would  by  no  means  include  in  the  following  estimate,  still 
the  general  tendency  of  novels  is  to  evil. 

The  average  novel  deals  largely  in  tJw  marvelous,  and  so 
puts  a  false  coloring  upon  human  life.  Every  one  knows, 
who  knows  any  thing  in  regard  to  this  class  of  books,  that 
they  are,  for  the  most  part,  but  a  compilation  of  startling 
adventures,  strange  coincidences,  and  hair-breadth  escapes. 
The  common  life  of  mortals  is  an  every-day  affair,  dealing 
with  sharply  defined  realities,  and  as  far  removed  as  can 
be  from  the  "  romantic."  But  this  popular  literature  aims 
to  throw  as  fine  a  web  of  fancy  and  romance  around  every 
thing  and  every  character  as  is  possible ;  and  those  novels 
which  are  strictly  true  to  life,  whose  heroes,  like  Miss  Mu- 
lock's  "John  Halifax,  Gentleman,"  meet  with  no  strokes 
of  fortune  save  such  as  are  the  legitimate  results  of  virtue 
and  industry,  are  pronounced  insipid  and  dull  by  the  mass 
of  novel-readers,  no  matter  who  wrote  them,  or  what  the 


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moral — no  matter  how  masterly  may  be  the  delineation  of 
life  and  character.  An  unnatural  spice  of  the  unaccount- 
able, the  strange,  will  alone  meet  the  demands  of  this  per- 
verted taste ;  and  he  who  is  the  most  skillful  in  preparing 
this  mixture  is,  of  course,  the  most  popular. 

Writers  of  this  class  commonly  represent  every-day, 
good  young  men  as  dull  and  tiresome  to  a  young  woman 
of  spirit,  while  pirate  heroes  are  invariably  frank,  generous, 
attractive,  and  open-hearted ;  so  our  novel-reading  girls 
come  to  prefer  pirate  heroes  to  good  young  men.  The  flat, 
pointless  tales  of  Peterson,  Waverly,  etc. ,  go  to  the  other 
extreme  of  improbability,  and  delineate  effortless  lives, 
made  up  of  love  passages,  picnics,  parties,  etc,  inclining 
their  young  readers  to  be  satisfied  with  such  events,  and  to 
aim  at  nothing  higher.  In  either  case  the  young  mind  is 
unfitted  for  the  common  events  and  the  practical  duties 
of  real  life. 

The  habit  of  novel-reading  will  inevitably  enervate  the 
manhood  and  dwarf  the  mind  of  its  victim,  and  give  him 
a  disrelish  for  the  common,  but  really  great  and  grand,  re- 
sponsibilities of  our  existence.  The  world  wants  men  and 
women,  not  sickly  sentimentalists ;  it  wants  those  who  can 
rise  above  childish  pursuits,  and  live  in  regions  of  lofty 
thoughts  and  worthy  deeds.  But  the  habitual  novel-reader 
can  not  be  such  a  character.  He  lives,  like  the  opium- 
eater,  in  a  sort  of  dream-land,  and  the  realities  of  life  fail 
to  call  forth  his  energies.  Many  a  young  man,  after  be- 
coming mentally  narcotized  by  this  kind  of  reading,  imag- 
ines himself  under  the  influence  of  a  sort  of  destiny.  He 
lives  so  completely  in  the  atmosphere  of  romance  that  he 
imagines  it  to  be  somehow  or  other  connected  with  his  own 
history ;  and  with  a  listless  scorn  he  looks  upon  the  com- 
mon fortunes  of  men.  He  feels  lifted  above  that  dead 
level  of  life  where  industry  and  energy  are  necessary  to 
success,  and  expects  to  be  borne,  by  some  sudden  wave  of 
good  fortune,  to  the  position  he  covets.    So  he  comes  to 


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be,  what  the  world  least  wants,  a  man  of  dreams  rather 
than  a  man  of  deeds. 

Or,  if  he  escapes  this  mental  Scylla,  on  the  other  side 
yawns  a  moral  Charybdis  which  is  sure  to  ingulf  him.  As 
he  studies  these  false  characters — that  with,  perhaps,  one 
or  two  noble  qualities  combine  so  many  that  are  ignoble — 
first  he  admires,  then  he  copies. 

Heading  the  adventures  of  men  who  are  represented  as 
having  an  extensive  knowledge  of  the  world,  he  gradually 
gets  dissatisfied  with  his  present  surroundings,  and  begins 
to  look  for  a  change.  Laboring  under  a  sort  of  fascina- 
tion, he  ventures  into  the  broad  and  beautiful  road  that 
invites  him.  He  passes  through  scenes  of  revelry  and  vice, 
and,  wild  with  the  boyish  notion  that  he  is  "learning  the 
world,"  he  rushes  on  from  evil  to  evil,  until  he  is  ruined  by 
the  wine-cup,  the  gambling-table,  and  the  house  of  her 
whose  "  steps  take  hold  on  hell"  Facts  are  our  witnesses 
here.  I  well  remember  the  thrill  of  horror  that  went 
through  my  young  heart  when  I  was  told  that  a  class-mate 
of  mine  had  committed  suicide  by  hanging  himself  to  the 
limb  of  a  forest-tree.  He  was  a  notorious  novel-reader,  of 
a  brilliant  but  romantic  turn  of  mind,  and,  as  might  have 
been  expected,  when  his  trunk  was  examined,  on  a  pile  of 
the  worst  kind  of  French  and  English  novels  was  a  note 
ascribing  his  rash  act  to  disappointment  in  a  love  affair 
with  a  silly  little  coquette  of  sixteen. 

A  young  man  who  was  recently  hanged  for  murder  as- 
cribed his  downfall  to  the  influence  of  the  vilest  kind  of 
novels,  which  he  was  allowed  to  read  when  eight  or  nine 
years  old.  "  If  good  books  had  been  furnished  me,"  he  said, 
"  and  no  bad  ones,  I  should  have  read  the  good  books  with 
as  great  zest  as  I  did  the  bad  ones.  Persuade  all  persons 
over  whom  you  have  any  influence  not  to  read  novels," 
was  the  parting  message  of  this  young  man  to  his  brother. 

The  chaplain  of  Newgate  prison,  in  London,  in  his  an- 
nual report  to  the  lord  mayor,  referring  to  many  fine- 


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looking  young  men  of  respectable  parentage,  in  the  city 
prison,  says  that  he  discovered  "  that  all  these  young  men, 
without  one  exception,  had  been  in  the  habit  of  reading 
those  cheap  periodicals  which  are  now  published  for  the 
alleged  instruction  and  amusement  of  the  youth  of  both 
sexes." 

Indiscriminate  novel-reading  hardens  the  heart  and  perverts 
the  sympathies.  The  young  woman  who  sobs  over  the  suffer- 
ings of  some  imaginary  character,  which  never  had  an  ex- 
istence save  in  the  waste  chambers  of  the  author's  brain, 
will  spurn  from  her  door  the  real  hungry  and  naked — will 
gather  her  robes  closely  about  her,  lest  they  brush  against 
the  mean  and  wretched  whom  she  meets.  She  will  mourn 
over  the  death  of  some  imaginary  fair  one,  the  fancied 
victim  of  lust  and  deceit,  but  will  turn  with  horror  and 
loathing  from  her  who,  the  real  victim  of  treachery, 

"Mad  from  life's  history, 
Glad  to  death's  mystery ; 

Swift  to  be  hurled 
Anywhere — anywhere 
Out  of  the  world,"— 

dies  with  a  lacerated  and  broken  heart — dies  in  shame  and 
despair. 

And  why  is  this?  Simply  because  real  misery  has  not 
the  charm  of  romance  thrown  around  it,  Self-abnegation 
and  charity  are  literally  ideal  virtues,  if,  indeed,  they  are 
virtues  at  all.  The  morbid  mind,  accustomed  to  over- 
wrought scenes  of  misery,  has  no  interest  in  that  which 
comes  with  the  chill  of  reality  rather  than  the  warmth  of 
imagination.  Such  persons  have  so  often  befooled  their 
emotive  natures  that  they  have  become  stupid,  and  do  not 
respond  to  the  common  suffering  of  common  humanity. 

Novel-reading  will  greatly  diminish,  if  not  take  away 
altogether,  the  horror  which  the  virtuous  feel  against  vice 
and  crime.  Almost  all  that  is  shocking  in  vice  is  com- 
bined in  these  books  with  some  noble  quality,  so  as  to  make 


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the  hero,  on  the  whole,  an  attractive  character.  The  thief, 
the  fortune-hunter,  and  especially  the  rake,  are  often  pre- 
sented as  successful,  elegant,  and  happy.  Novels  abound 
in  immodest  and  profane  allusions  or  expressions.  Wan- 
tonness, pride,  anger,  hatred,  and  unholy  love  are  the  ele- 
ments of  most  of  them. 

Indiscriminate  novel-reading  cultivates  bad  passions.  In 
this  case, 

"  'T  is  distance  lends  enchantment  to  the  view." 

And  as  the  beauties  of  imagination  and  the  semblance  of 
refinement  are  thrown  around  sin,  the  inexperienced  mind 
is  captivated ;  by  degrees  the  baser  passions  are  aroused 
and  become  dominant,  the  heart  is  corrupted,  and  the 
whole  life  is  defiled.  Under  pretense  of  illustrating  social 
life  as  it  is,  the  reader  is  made  familiar  with  its  worst  and 
most  exceptional  developments.  Under  these  favorable 
circumstances  the  poison  works  until  the  latent  fires  of  sin 
begin  to  burn.  Fuel  is  added  to  the  flames ;  fiercely  and 
more  fiercely  they  rage,  until  reason  and  judgment  and 
conscience  are  consumed,  and  the  man  himself  is  destroyed. 

How  many  a  young  man,  ruined  by  open  and  secret 
sin,  and  an  outcast  from  virtuous  society;  how  many  a 
young  woman,  crushed  and  heart-broken  with  her  burden 
of  shame,  spurned  by  those  who  should  soothe,  and  cursed 
by  those  who  should  comfort, — could  point  to  the  false 
views  of  life  given  by  indiscriminate  novel-reading  as  the 
influence  that  led  them  astray,  and  the  terrible  power  of 
such  reading  to  arouse  the  passions  as  the  influence  that 
ruined  them. 

I  tell  you  this  is  no  fancy  sketch.  On  every  side  of 
us  the  subtle  fiend  is  touching  and  blasting  immortal  souls. 
Men  teach  their  children  the  pure  truths  of  Christ's  Gos- 
pel, and  with  a  father's  watchfulness  and  love  shield  them 
from  corrupting  and  immodest  society ;  but,  because  par- 
ents are  indifferent  to  this  subject,  at  the  same  time  the 

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loved  daughter — the  idol  of  the  household — sits  quietly  at 
the  fireside,  drawing  her  ideas  of  society  from  such  novels, 
and  taking  into  her  young  heart  falsehoods  that  shall 
poison  all  her  future  life.  Under  a  pretense  of  photo- 
graphing real  life,  the  young  are  let  into  the  vile  secrets 
of  police  courts,  and  made  familiar  with  the  foul  details 
of  every  social  sin.  They  gain  a  knowledge  of  human 
frailties — a  precocious  wisdom,  which  "makes  them  rotten 
before  they  are  ripe."  And  this  evil  is  not  confined  to 
second  and  third  rate  novelists.  It  sullies  the  otherwise 
fair  fame  of  many  a  first-class  writer  of  romance.  For 
example,  take  Charles  Eeade,  .a  man  of  noble  genius, 
who,  at  the  first,  gave  us  some  works  that  were  powerful, 
pure,  and  healthy.  In  his  later  productions,  through  un- 
worthy attempts  to  cater  to  this  vile,  popular  taste,  he  has 
descended  to  the  lowest  level  of  indecency.  It  needs  but 
a  glance  at  his  books  called  "Griffith  Gaunt"  and  "A 
Terrible  Temptation"  to  show  that  they  are  not  fit  for  cir- 
culation in  virtuous  homes.  There  is  a  grain  of  comfort 
for  us  in  the  fact  that  not  only  religious  periodicals,  but 
leading  secular  papers  and  magazines  cry  out  against  such 
a  prostitution  of  this  author's  great  powers.  Some  of  Vic- 
tor Hugo's  stories,  so  extensively  circulated  in  this  coun- 
try, as  well  as  some  of  Mr.  Swinburne's  poems,  outrage 
every  principle  of  decency  and  humanity.  And  these  are, 
in  most  respects,  writers  of  the  highest  order. 

Indiscriminate  novel-reading  tends  to  destroy  the  taste  for 
other  and  more  substantial  reading.  Familiarity  with  pop- 
ular fiction  gives  a  disrelish  for  simple  truth,  and  engen- 
ders the  pernicious  habit  of  reading  merely  for  amusement. 
This  destroys  the  love  of  sober  investigation  ;  it  renders 
science,  history,  biography,  critical  essays,  and  books  of 
travel  (in  which  the  healthy  mind  takes  so  much  delight), 
tedious  and  unattractive ;  it  dwarfs  the  memory  and  reas- 
oning powers,  and  makes  the  imagination  morbid  and 
unhealthy  by  constant  excitement. 


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Let  a  young  man  or  woman  accustom  the  mind  to  this 
unnatural  excitement,  and  it  will  soon  be  evident  that, 
when  it  is  not  under  the  influence  of  that  stimulant  by 
reaction,  it  sinks  to  such  an  insensible  state  that  solid  read- 
ing can  not  arouse  it  to  interest.  The  mind  is  very  like 
the  body  in  this  respect.  Let  a  man  accustom  himself  to 
the  use  of  stimulants  (such  as  wine,  brandy,  or  tobacco), 
and  soon  he  will  be  utterly  unable  to  arouse  himself  to  great 
exertions,  and  to  call  out  all  the  energies  of  his  nature 
without  the  aid  of  such  stimulants.  On  the  contrary,  if 
he  accustoms  himself  to  a  strong,  healthy  diet,  without 
unnatural  stimulants,  he  can  at  any  time  command  his 
entire  energies,  bringing  them  to  bear  upon  the  accom- 
plishment of  his  object. 

So  the  mind  of  the  habitual  novel-reader  is  debauched 
by  the  wine,  the  brandy,  and  the  tobacco  of  literature ; 
and  it  will  take  no  interest  in  a  book  that  does  not  contain 
these  elements;  it  can  not  be  aroused  to  activity  in  any 
other  way.  1  have  the  proof  of  this  in  the  experience  of 
every  confirmed  novel-reader.  The  modern  novel,  with  its 
false  history  (and  how  often  we  hear  of  history  manufac- 
tured for  the  occasion  by  the  novelist  quoted  as  real  his- 
tory!), its  false  biography,  and  its  false  morals,  is  an 
enemy  to  true  mental  culture. 

Most  novel-reading  is  anti-religious  in  its  tendencies.  I 
know  there  is,  among  a  certain  class  of  literary  or  semi- 
literary  minds,  a  sympathy  for  these  moral  defects,  and 
they  sneer  at  our  demand  for  a  respectable  deference  to 
religion  in  all  literature  as  illiberal  and  puritanic. 

If  there  is  any  thing  detestable,  it  is  this  cant  about 
"orthodoxy"  and  "fanaticism"  on  the  part  of  those  who 
sneer  at  the  sublime  faith  of  Paul,  of  Calvin,  of  Wesley, 
of  Newton,  and  of  Washington,  as  a  mere  superstition, 
and  who  applaud  those  flings  which  men  of  more  genius 
than  grace  make  at  religion,  in  their  books,  as  marks  of 
smartness  and  spirit.    Such  sentiments,  however,  show  a 


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weakness  of  the  head  only  equaled  by  the  corruption  of  the 
heart. 

Popular  novelists  seldom,  if  ever,  represent  the  sublime 
triumphs  of  Christianity,  its  purity,  its  heavenly  mission  to 
men ;  but,  on  the  contrary,  if  they  notice  it  at  all,  they 
only  show  you  its  perversions,  and  in  place  of  a  really  re- 
generate heart  and  sanctified  life,  they  give  you  the  hypo- 
crite. Many  of  them  use  religion  as  a  cloak,  to  impart  the 
greater  perfection  of  cunning  to  their  vilest  characters.  If 
they  wish  to  represent  a  deceitful,  wily  villain ,  they  will 
endow  him  with  great  pretensions  to  piety  as  a  finishing 
touch  to  the  picture.  Or,  if  they  assume  to  give  a  true 
Christian  character,  they  make  him  a  sort  of  weak-headed 
"  goody,"  who  only  excites  your  laughter  or  your  pity. 

I  make  these  charges  plainly  and  understanding]}-,  and 
am  fully  prepared  to  substantiate  them.  Even  the  best 
romance-writers,  whose  works  are  classics  in  our  language, 
are  not  entirely  free  from  this  charge.  Charles  Dickens, 
whose  works  of  fiction  are  pronounced  so  healthful  to  mor- 
als, aud  who  really  displays  a  noble  sympathy  with  the 
poor  and  oppressed,  is  an  example.  Take  his  story  of 
"David  Copperfield."  In  this,  the  step-father  of  David, 
aided  and  abetted  by  a  maiden  sister,  is  guilty  of  all  man- 
ner of  meanness.  He  breaks  the  hearts  and  destroys  the 
lives  of  two  wives  in  succession,  and  treats  little  David  with 
the  greatest  cruelty.  This  step-father  and  his  sister  are 
described  as  professedly  pious  and  careful  in  all  their  out- 
ward religious  duties.  David's  schoolmaster,  who  combines 
all  that  is  tyrannical  to  his  scholars  with  unfaithfulness  as 
a  teacher,  is  also  described  as  a  pious  man.  In  short,  all 
the  characters  of  the  story  who  awaken  the  abhorrence  or 
the  contempt  of  the  reader  are  described  as  professors  of 
religion,  while  nearly  every  worthy  and  attractive  character 
is  represented  as  holding  himself  aloof  from  religion,  with 
an  assumed  superiority,  or,  at  least,  is  shown  to  be  wholly 
indifferent  to  it. 


INDISCRIMINA  TE  NO  VEL  -R EADING. 


77 


What  reader  of  Dickens  does  not  recall  with  disgust 
the  saintly,  conscientious  villain  Pecksniff,  or  the  punch- 
loving  preacher,  Stiggius? 

In  Scott's  most  popular  tale  of  "-Rob  Roy,"  a  stern, 
cruel,  unreasonable  parent  is  represented  as  being  made  so 
by  his  religion,  and  one  of  the  most  grasping,  dishonest 
business  characters  ever  represented  is  a  zealous  Presby- 
terian. 

Now,  although  such  writers  as  Scott  and  Dickens  may, 
in  general,  be  valuable,  and,  under  proper  circumstances, 
may  be  read  with  profit  as  literary  masters,  yet  this  charge 
of  religious  misrepresentation  can  be  maintained  against 
them,  and  is  a  blemish  upon  at  least  a  part  of  their  works. 
But  the  wrong  does  not  end  here.  From  such  writers 
these  contemptible  third-rate  scribblers  take  their  tone, 
and,  as  imitators  always  reproduce  the  dejects  rather  than 
the  excellencies  of  their  models,  by  a  natural  process  this 
evil  has  multiplied  itself  in  every  direction,  and  has  blos- 
somed out,  and  gone  to  seed,  in  the  periodical  trash 
already  referred  to. 

Now,  what  will  be  the  tendency  of  all  this?  Inevita- 
bly the  young  reader  will  learn  to  despise  religion  and  to 
shun  the  Christian.  When  the  novelist  associates  religion 
with  the  lack  of  all  genial  affections,  with  avarice  and 
meanness,  and  connects  irreligion  with  all  that  is  socially 
or  intellectually  attractive,  the  inexperienced  youth  will 
come  to  regard  religion  as  at  variance  with  a  true  literary 
taste  and  as  a  matter  of  no  moment  to  a  man  or  woman 
of  culture. 

Says  an  eminent  writer,  in  speaking  of  three  very  pop- 
ular novels:  "There  is  little  hazard  in v  asserting  that 
these  three  novels  have  done  more  to  undermine  the  be- 
lief in  a  change  of  heart  and  spiritual  communion  with 
God,  and  to  destroy  reverence  for  the  Bible,  than  has 
been  done  in  the  same  time  by  Thomas  Paine's  '  Age  of 
Reason.'    We  are  reluctant  to  admit  it.    We  know  how 


78 


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many  of  the  admirers  of  these  authors  (and  what  genial 
minds  are  not  admirers  of  them?;  will  revolt  at  the 
charge.  We  can  not  help  it.  We  acknowledge  all  their 
excellencies,  bat  the  charge  of  irreligion  is  a  valid  one. 
It  is  also  a  fundamental  one;  and,  in  the  estimation  of  a 
right  mind,  it  is  a  fatal  one." 

Such,  then,  are  the  tendencies  of  this  extravagant  lit- 
erature ;  and  overrunning  the  reading  world  with  such 
trash  is  only  preparing  the  popular  mind  for  worse  forms 
of  literary  and  moral  corruptions.  We  begin  already  to 
reap  the  terrible  consequences.  A  few  years  since  such 
obscene  illustrated  papers  as  are  now  thrust  in  our  faces 
at  every  railroad  depot  and  every  news-stand  would  have 
been  impossible;  but  now  the  public  mind  has  become  so 
demoralized  by  these  influences  of  which  we  have  been 
speaking,  that  such  literary  rottenness  is  quietly  tolerated. 
Unless  men  awake  to  this  subject,  soon  the  flood-gates  of 
hell  will  be  opened  upon  us,  and  Churches  and  schools 
and  all  good  influences  will  be  utterly  powerless  to  stay 
the  tide  ot  destruction. 

Solve  the  problem  as  you  may,  these  evils  of  which  I 
have  spoken  are  the  unequivocal  result  of  indiscriminate 
novel-reading.  Modify  and  evade  the  conclusion  as  you 
will,  it  is  the  same. 

This  is  a  serious,  a  fearful  question,  that  urges  itself 
upon  our  attention  with  an  increasing  importance.  It  i3  a 
question  that  will  tax  all  our  wisdom  and  all  our  piety. 

How  shall  we  read  novels?  Dr.  Curry  says:  "While 
we  are  free  to  declare  our  conviction  that,  for  the  ,most 
part,  fictitious  literature  is  miserably  poor  provender  for  the 
mind,  we  can  also  attest  the  real  value  of  some  novels  that 
we  have  read." 

None  of  us,  probably,  are  prepared  to  say  that  under 
no  circumstances  should  a  work  of  the  better  kind  of 
fiction  be  read.  It  may  sometimes  be  a  recreation,  and 
the  delineations  of  manners  and  customs  in  romance  are 


INDISCRIMINATE  NOVEL- READING. 


79 


often  helps  to  details  in  history.  Many  works  of  fiction 
may  be  read  with  safety,  some  even  with  profit.  But  the 
very  greatest  care  is  necessary,  in  reading  even  the  best  of 
novels,  lest  too  great  familiarity  with  such  literature  should 
relax  the  mind,  pervert  its  powers,  and  disqualify  the  heart 
for  the  active  virtues  of  life. 

In  attempting  to  give  advice  upon  this  point  I  am  fully 
aware  of  the  difficulties  in  the  way,  not  the  least  Of  which 
is  the  disposition  of  the  young  to  take  advantage  of  a 
reasonable  license  in  certain  things,  and  decidedly  overdo 
the  matter.  But  I  am  impressed  with  the  fact  that  an 
indiscriminate  condemnation  of  novel-reading  is  not  wise ; 
such  a  course  is  too  extreme.  Such  a  course  will  cut  off 
the  ears  of  our  }Toung  people,  so  that  they  will  not  listen 
to  what  we  have  to  say  upon  this  subject. 

I  am  also  impressed  with  the  importance  of  careful 
advice  to  the  young,  by  way  of  instructing  their  inexperi- 
ence and  leading  them  to  a  wise  course  as  regards  light 
literature  ;  and  the  end  to  be  secured  is  at  least  worthy 
the  prayerful,  thoughtful  attempt. 

In  offering  some  advice  upon  this  subject,  let  me  say  : 

1.  Read  no  paper  or  magazine  which  is  mainly  devoted 
to  stories  and  novelettes. 

2.  Never  allow  children  to  read  novels. 

3.  Read  works  of  fiction  only  as  a  recreation  and  relax- 
ation from  severe  mental  labor.  If  you  have  but  little 
time  for  reading  and  study,  spend  none  of  it  in  novel- 
reading. 

4.  Read  only  classics — those  works  of  fiction  that  are 
of  acknowledged  merit,  and  are  legitimate  in  their  concep- 
tion and  aim.  Seek  the  advice  of  some  person  of  good 
judgment,  experience,  and  mental  training  in  making  your 
selections. 

5.  Read  only  such  fiction  as  you  feel  is  worth  reading 
for  its  own  sake,  such  as  you  feel  you  can  read  over 
again,  at  some  future  time,  with  both  pleasure  and  profit. 


80 


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6.  When  you  find  that  your  limited  reading  of  fiction 
interferes  in  the  least  with  your  mental  or  moral  duties, 
then  let  it  alone  altogether. 

7.  Finally,  that  Ave  may  be  right  and  act  right  in  this 
important  matter,  let  us  seek  a  consecration  of  mind  and 
heart  to  the  Master's  work.  Let  us  look  for  the  baptism 
of  spiritual  power,  that  we  may  so  lift  up  Christ  before 
the  world  that  the  old  and  the  young  will  be  drawn  from 
sin  to  holiness,  from  Satan  to  the  Savior. 

I  would  address  those  who  are  in  the  morning  of  life, 
especially  those  who  have  become  addicted  to  this  perni- 
cious habit.  Let  me  urge  you  to  think  earnestly  upon 
this  subject.  It  concerns  you  intellectually  and  morally. 
It  concerns  your  success  in  life  and  your  safety  in  eternity. 

Beware,  O  beware  of  this  evil !  It  will  poison  your 
mind;  it  will  ruin  your  soul.  God  purposes  better  things 
for  you.  The  Church  and  the  world  want  cultivated 
minds  as  well  as  regenerate  hearts;  and,  with  all  your  op- 
portunities, you  have  no  time  to  spend  on  trifles,  or  in 
doing  that  which  will  have  to  be  undone.  All  about  you 
are  the  materials  for  a  perfect  intellectual  temple.  May 
you  be  so  divinely  directed  in  your  choice  that  every  stone 
you  place  in  the  walls  may  be  worthy  and  enduring,  while 
the  whole  shall  constitute  a  fitting  support  for  the  top- 
stone,  which  shall  be  perfect  love  to  God  and  men ! 

E.  C.  HOUGHTON. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  LITERATURE. 


81 


VIII. 

METHODIST  BIOGRAPHICAL  LIT- 
ERATURE. 

PART  I. 

Two  thousand  years  ago,  Terence,  the  great  Roman 
poet,  in  embodying  counsel  for  one  who  desired  his  philos- 
ophy of  life,  said:  "  My  advice  is,  to  consult  the  lives  of 
other  men,  as  he  would  a  looking-glass,  and  from  thence 
fetch  examples  for  his  own  imitation."  The  late  Thomas 
Carlyle  suggested  that  "  history  is  the  essence  of  innumer- 
able biographies,"  and  declared  that  "  there  is  no  heroic 
poem  in  the  world  but  is  at  bottom  a  biography,  the  life 
of  a  man."  The  lives  of  those  who  have  lived,  not  for 
themselves  alone,  but  for  humanity,  unconsciously  to  our- 
selves influence  our  minds,  govern  our  pursuits,  and  shape 
our  destinies.  No  good  or  great  man  liveth  to  himself ; 
his  influence,  not  limited  to  a  narrow  sphere,  circulates 
through  all  the  great  channels  of  society.  The  great  biog- 
rapher Plutarch  wrote  parallel  lives.  His  biographies  run 
in  pairs,  each  pair  placing  before  the  reader  two  human 
characters,  which,  thrown  upon  different  circumstances  and 
a  different  age,  had  yet  certain  affinities.  In  Methodist 
biography,  as  the  brief  survey  which  Ave  propose  to  pre- 
sent may  demonstrate,  there  are  closer  affinities  than  the 
Plutarchiau  characters,  and  yet  an  almost  infinite  variety 
in  one  comprehensive  unity. 

"The  biographies  of  the  chief  men  of  Methodism," 
says  the  Rev.  Dr.  Curry,  "  have  the  two  great  excellences 
of  being  valuable  and  trustworthy  repertoires  of  our  eccle- 


82 


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siastical  history,  and  in  presenting  in  concrete  and  living 
forms  our  peculiar  doctrines  of  Christian  experience."  The 
chief  office  of  biography,  then,  is  to  perpetuate  what  might 
otherwise  pass  away,  to  illustrate  what  might  otherwise 
become  uncertain,  and  ultimately  fade  into  deep  obscurity. 
It  is  to  embalm  the  great  and  the  good,  so  that  they  can 
not  perish  from  the  earth ;  to  enable  us  to  gather  within 
a  single  room  a  large  part  of  the  illustrious  spirits  of  the 
past,  to  commune  with  them  at  our  own  pleasure,  and 
even  to  become  companions  of  their  lives.  In  our  Meth- 
odist biographies  we  converse  with  the  illustrious  dead  of 
our  communion  by  means  which  they  themselves  have  fur- 
nished to  us,  or  by  narratives  which,  to  general  ability  of 
treatment  and  to  minuteness  of  significant  detail,  have 
added  the  charm  of  sympathy  with  the  departed  and  the 
power  to  awaken  and  diffuse  it.  These  characters  of  ex- 
alted Christian  worth  constitute  an  impressive  heritage  of 
the  Church  and  the  world. 

Until  a  comparatively  recent  period  the  Methodist 
Church  in  America  did  but  little  in  this  department  of  lit- 
erature, and  nearly  all  the  works  of  biography  published 
by  the  Book  Concern  were  reprints  of  European  produc- 
tions. It  was  so  in  the  early  history  of  Methodism  in 
England  ;  and  must  necessarily  be  so.  The  earlier  preach- 
ers of  the  heroic  age  of  the  Church  have  other  demands 
upon  their  energies,  and  it  is  only  when  they  have  made 
history  that  they  can  afford  to  pause  long  enough  to  record 
it.  How  brief  is  the  mention  made  by  Mr.  Wesley  in  the 
Minutes  of  the  death  of  his  helpers!  The  "  Cyclopaedia 
of  Methodism*'  says:  "The  first  references  to  the  death 
of  ministers  were  matle  by  Mr.  Wesley  in  1777,  and  are 
remarkable  for  their  brevity.  They  are  as  follows :  1  John 
Slocomb,  at  Clones,  an  old  laborer,  worn  out  in  the  service. 
John  Harrison,  near  Lisburn,  a  promising  youth,  serious, 
modest,  and  much  devoted  to  God.  William  Lumley,  in 
Huxham,  a  blessed  young  man,  a  happy  witness  of  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL  LITERATURE.  83 

full  liberty  of  the  children  of  God.  William  Minethorp, 
near  Dunbar,  an  Israelite  indeed,  in  whom  there  is  no 
guile.'  In  succeeding  years  these  notices  were  somewhat 
longer.  But  when  the  sainted  Fletcher  died,  who  was  so 
remarkable  for  his  personal  piety,  his  intellectual  power, 
and  his  force  as  a  writer,  the  only  notice  is,  '  John 
Fletcher,  a  pattern  of  all  holiness,  scarce  to  be  paralleled 
in  the  century.'  So  fully  had  the  example  of  Mr.  Wesley 
influenced  the  preachers  that,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in 
1791,  the  only  minute  was  the  following:  'It  may  be  ex- 
pected that  the  conference  make  some  observation  on  the 
death  of  Mr.  Wesley;  but  they  find  themselves  utterly  in- 
adequate to  express  their  ideas  on  this  awful  and  affecting 
event.  Our  souls  do  truly  mourn  for  their  great  loss,  and 
they  trust  they  shall  give  the  most  substantial  proofs  of 
their  veneration  for  the  memory  of  their  most  esteemed 
father  and  friend  by  endeavoring  with  great  humility  and 
diffidence  to  follow  and  imitate  him  in  doctrine,  discij^line, 
and  life.'" 

But,  however  "diffident"  his  brethren  may  have  been 
in  reference  to  these  obituary  notices,  it  was  otherwise  with 
the  great  masses  beyond  them,  and  subsequently  even  with 
themselves.  It  has  been  estimated  that,  until  the  year 
1848,  portraitures  of  Wesley  and  Methodism,  and  works 
on  that  subject,  from  the  penny  tract  to  the  volume  of 
high  pretensions,  appeared  at  the  rate  of  about  four  pro- 
ductions a  year,  from  the  time  of  the  organization  of  the 
society  in  1739,  and  these  publications  have  immensely 
exceeded  that  proportion  during  the  last  thirty  years.  It 
is  almost  impossible  to  refer  to  the  ecclesiastical  system 
without  referring  to  its  founder,  and  this,  too,  in  more  or 
less  of  a  biographical  sense.  But  the  first  distinctive  biog- 
raphy of  Mr.  Wesley  was  written  in  1791,  and  bore  the 
following  title :  "  Memoirs  of  the  Late  Rev.  John  Wesley, 
A.  M.,  with  a  Review  of  his  Life  and  Writings;  and  a 
History  of  Methodism,  from  its  Commencement  in  1729 


84 


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to  the  Present  Time.  By  John  Hampson,  A.  B."  (Sun- 
derland. 3  vols.,  12mo.)  According  to  My Ws  "History 
of  the  Methodists,"  the  biographer  entered  the  Wesleyan 
ministry  in  1777,  his  father  having  become  one  of  John 
Wesley's  assistants  twenty-two  years  previously,  and  they 
both  left  the  connection  in  1785,  Mr.  Wesley,  in  filling  up 
the  Deed  of  Declaration,  having  omitted  both  their  names 
from  that  document.  It  was  the  author's  intention  to  pub- 
lish his  work  during  Mr.  Wesley's  life-time ;  but  this  was 
not  done.  It  has  been  said  of  this  book,  that  "as  a  doc- 
umentary Life  it  has  no  value ;  its  incidents,  manufactured 
for  the  occasion,  are  of  a  coarse  character,  and  its  crit- 
icisms are  of  the  most  petty  kind." 

The  narrative  of  John  Wesley's  last  days  by  Miss  Eliz- 
abeth Ritchie,  who  was  present  at  his  death,  was  printed 
and  circulated  throughout  the  connection  immediately  after 
his  decease,  and  is  the  chief  source  whence  Wesley's  biog- 
raphers derive  their  information  respecting  the  closing 
scenes  of  his  life. 

The  second  Life  of  Wesley  appeared  in  1792,  an  octavo 
of  642  pages,  printed  in  London,  with  the  title,  "  Life  of 
the  Rev.  John  Wesley,  A.  M.,  including  An  Account 
of  the  Great  Revival  of  Religion  in  Europe  and  America, 
of  which  he  was  the  First  and  Chief  Instrument.  By 
Dr.  Coke  and  Mr.  Moore."  This  volume  was  published 
under  peculiar  circumstances.  Mr.  Wesley  had  named 
these  two  of  his  brethren  and  Dr.  Whitehead  as  his  liter- 
ary executors ;  but  a  misunderstanding  arising  between 
Dr.  Whitehead  and  the  conference,  the  volume  was  alto- 
gether written  by  the  two  wThose  names  stand  in  connec- 
tion with  its  authorship.  Dr.  Whitehead,  who  had  been 
one  of  Wesley's  itinerants  for  five  years  (1764-1769),  and 
who  had  afterward  rejoined  the  Methodists,  and  was  a  local 
preacher  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Wesley's  death,  had  received 
the  manuscripts  and  other  documents  necessary  to  the 
work,  and  had  entered  upon  the  work  of  preparing  the 


BIOGRAPHICAL  LITERATURE. 


biography.  In  an  evil  hour  he  determined  to  hold  the 
copyright,  for  which  it  had  been  suggested  to  him  he  could 
receive  two  thousand  pounds.  The  temptation  proved  too 
great,  as  he  was  only  to  receive  two  hundred  guineas  for 
his  labor.  He  refused  to  give  up  what  he  had  already 
written,  amounting  to  128  pages,  and  the  other  literary 
executors  were  compelled  to  proceed  without  all  the  data 
requisite  for  the  work.  But  the  book  was  prepared  by 
them,  was  printed,  and  before  the  next  conference  was 
held  ten  thousand  copies  had  been  sold. 

Coke  and  Moore's  life  of  Wesley  must  be  distinguished 
from  Moore's  "  Life  of  John  and  Charles  Wesley,  and 
Memoirs  of  the  Family,"  as  the  latter  was  published  in 
1824.  It  is  a  valuable  contribution  to  the  history  of 
Methodism ;  but  it  is,  in  some  places,  tinctured  with  his 
own  peculiar  views,  and  especially  with  those  of  them  which 
affected  his  personal  position. 

The  first  volume  of  Dr.  Whitehead's  Life  of  Wesley 
appeared  in  1793,  and  the  second  in  1796.  As  it  was 
written  during  a  period  of  alienation  from  his  former 
friends,  and  at  a  time  when  his  mind  was  engrossed  in  a 
desire  to  vindicate  himself  from  the  just  suspicions  his  con- 
duct had  aroused,  it  was  hardly  to  be  expected  that  the  book 
would  be  unbiased  in  its  character.  Dr.  Curry  says  that, 
"  having  the  rod  in  his  own  hands,  he  did  fail  not  to  apply 
it,  thus  making  his  Life  of  Wesley  a  scourge  to  both  him 
and  his  followers."  Several  editions  of  the  book  have  since 
been  published :  one  in  Dublin  in  1805,  another  in  Boston 
in  1844,  and  another  in  Philadelphia  in  1846,  to  the  last 
of  which  the  Rev.  Dr.  T.  H.  Stockton  furnished  an  Intro- 
duction ;  and  a  more  recent  one  in  New  York  (1881). 

The  next  biographer  of  Mr.  Wesley  was  Robert  Sou- 
they,  poet  laureate  of  George  III,  whose  work  originally 
appeared  in  1820  in  two  volumes,  reached  a  second  edition, 
and  was  reprinted  in  New  York  the  same  year.  In  the 
third  edition  Mr.  Southey  purposed  to  make  some  import- 


86         *   METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


ant  changes  in  the  tone  of  the  work,  having  been  con- 
vinced by  Alexander  Knox  that  he  was  in  error  in  ascrib- 
ing ambitious  motives  to  Mr.  Wesley ;  but  the  third  edition 
did  not  appear  until  1846,  after  Mr.  Sou  they  had  been 
dead  three  years,  when  it  was  edited  by  his  son,  the  Rev. 
C.  C.  Southey,  and  no  specific  mention  is  made  of  his 
father's  altered  views.  The  next  year  (1847)  an  American 
edition  was  published  by  Harper  &  Brothers,  edited  by  the 
Rev.  Daniel  Curry,  and  several  editions  have  since  ap- 
peared, the  latest  and  best  of  which,  carefully  edited  by 
"  E.  W. ,"  is  that  of  Bonn's  Standard  Library,  published 
in  1876.  Mr.  Southey  was  unfitted  to  be  the  biographer 
of  such  a  man  as  Wesley ;  not  from  any  literary  inability, 
but  from  inability  to  sympathize  with  his  wonderful  spirit 
and  undertaking.  Southey  looked  at  things  from  a  Church- 
man's point  of  observation  ;  he  had  no  personal  acquaint- 
ance with  experimental  godliness,  if,  indeed,  he  had  any 
belief  whatever  in  it,  and  all,  that  Mr.  Wesley  deemed 
vital  and  saving  in  Christianity  he  coolly  explains  away 
on  philosophical  principles.  It  must  be  admitted,  how- 
ever, that  in  collecting  material  for  his  biography  he  ex- 
plored every  accessible  source  of  information,  that  he  does 
justice  to  Mr.  Wesley's  great  abilities,  to  his  attainments 
as  a  scholar  and  his  fine  temper  as  a  man  and  as  a  con- 
troversialist, and  that  he  acknowledges  the  extensive  moral 
good  effected  by  his  instrumentality.  In  his  private  cor- 
respondence with  Wilberforce  he  says:  "I  consider  him 
(Wesley)  as  the  most  influential  mind  of  the  last  century, 
the  man  who  will  have  produced  the  greatest  effects  cent- 
uries, or  perhaps  millenniums,  hence,  if  the  present  race 
of  men  should  continue  so  long."  Yet  his  book  has  been 
variously  judged  by  those  inside  as  well  as  outside  the 
pale  of  Methodism.  Dr.  Stevens  speaks  of  its  "  question- 
able purpose  and  total  misapprehension  of  the  providential 
design  of  Methodism."  Samuel  T.  Coleridge,  who  was  his 
brother-in-law,  says  the  book  is  "unsafe  for  all  of  unsettled 


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minds,"  notwithstanding  he  had  found  no  book  so  unfailing 
a  source  of  enjoyment.  Bishop  Heber,  in  the  Quarterly 
Review  for  1820,  says  that  "few  persons  could  have  been 
found,  we  think,  better  qualified  for  the  undertaking  than 
Mr.  Southey  has  shown  himself  to  be;"  and  Lord  Macau- 
lay,  in  his  Essays,  says:  "The  Life  of  Wesley  will  prob- 
ably live.  Defective  as  it  is,  it  contains  the  only  popular 
account  of  a  most  remarkable  moral  revolution,  and  of  a 
man  whose  eloquence  and  logical  acuteness  might  have 
made  him  eminent  jn  literature,  whose  genius  for  govern- 
ment was  not  inferior  to  that  of  Richelieu,  and  who,  what- 
ever his  errors  may  have  been,  devoted  all  his  powers,  in 
defiance  of  obloquy  and  derision,  to  what  he  sincerely  con- 
sidered as  the  highest  good  of  his  species." 

Mr.  Southey's  work  was  followed  almost  immediately 
by  Richard  Watson's  "  Observations  on  Southey's  Life  of 
Wesley,"  which  is  distinguished  throughout  by  great  force 
of  reasoning,  and  contains  many  passages  of  superior 
beauty  and  eloquence. 

In  1823  appeared  Dr.  Adam  Clarke's  "  Memoirs  of  the 
Wesley  Family."  This  work  was  written  in  the  short 
space  of  four  months,  and  after  its  publication  the  copy- 
right was  presented  to  the  Wesley  an  Book-room.  Dr. 
Clarke  had,  however,  long  entertained  die  idea  of  writing 
a  biography  of  the  founder  of  Methodism  himself,  and  at 
the  conference  of  1820  had  been  officially  requested  to  do 
so.  The  widely  read  memoir  of  the  poet-laureate  was  then 
making  a  great  impression  on  the  public  mind,  and  a 
number  of  influential  persons,  who  dissented  from  the 
worldly-minded  and  sinister  views  of  the  character  of  Mr. 
Wesley  presented  in  that  biography,  urged  him,  by  earnest 
solicitations,  to  acquiesce  in  the  request.  Among  these, 
Mr.  Butterworth  offered  him  fiye  hundred  pounds  for  the 
copyright.  Nor  was  Dr.  Clarke  averse  to  the  task,  but 
greatly  inclined  to  undertake  it.  He  had,  indeed,  a  feel- 
ing, produced  by  some  incidents  in  conversations  with  him 


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while  living,  that  such  a  thing  would  be  agreeable  to  Mr. 
Wesley  himself ;  and  he  had  been  for  many  years  accumu- 
lating materials  for  that  purpose.  The  project,  however, 
issued  not  in  a  distinctive  Life  of  the  founder  of  Method- 
ism, but  in  a  memoir  of  the  family  from  which  he  sprang. 
This  was  subsequently  reprinted,  with  a  large  accession  of 
matter,  in  two  volumes.  The  London  Watchman  said  of 
it:  "To  those  who  have  read  the  Memoir  of  the  Wesley 
Family,  no  recommendation  of  ours  will  enhance  its  value. 
To  those,  on  the  contrary,  who  have  .that  pleasure  in  re- 
serve, we  can  promise  an  exquisite  treat."  It  is  now  pub- 
lished in  a  single  volume  at  the  Methodist  Book  Concern 
in  a  12mo  edition. 

The  Life  of  Wesley  by  Richard  Watson  appeared  in 
London  in  1831,  and  was  republished  in  New  York  the 
same  year.  It  reached  its  sixth  edition  in  London  in 
1839.  This  book,  says  Dr.  Stevens,  "  has  been  the  pop- 
ular memoir"  of  the  great  founder  of  Methodism.  It  was 
not  merely  a  condensed  review  of  Mr.  Wesley's  life,  deduced 
from  the  works  of  his  former  biographers,  but  contained  a 
large  portion  of  original  matter.  The  influence  of  Mr. 
Wesley's  labors  and  plans  upon  public  morals  and  happi- 
ness, and  the  conduct  which  he  pursued  in  reference  to  the 
established  Church,  are  largely  and  ably  discussed  in  this 
volume,  and  the  charges  of  inconsistency,  of  schism,  and 
of  other  evils,  so  often  urged  against  Jbim,  are  effectually 
repelled,  while  due  respect  is  shown  to  the  national  Church, 
for  which  Mr.  Watson  cherished  a  sincere  regard.  The 
book  is  impartial,  genial,  judicious,  and  a  devout  recog- 
nition of  the  hand  of  Providence  in  the  great  Wesleyan 
movement.  It  well  supplies  the  place  of  a  species  of  phi- 
losophizing^ even  if  it  were  of  less  objectionable  type  than 
that  which  is  furnished  by  Dr.  Southey  and  Isaac  Taylor. 
An  edition  of  this  Life  was  issued  by  the  Southern  Meth- 
odist publishing  house  in  1857,  and  an  abridgment  of  Wat- 
son's Life  of  Wesley  ("  Ahwal  i  Padri  Wasli  Sahib")  was 


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prepared  by  Rev.  H.  Mansell,  and  published  from  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  press  in  India. 

In  1851  appeared  Isaac  Taylor's  "  Wesley  and  Meth- 
odism," and  was  republished  by  the  Harpers  in  1852. 
Editions  were  also  issued  in  England  in  1863  and  1865, 
and  the  North  American  Review  said  of  it  that  "in  point 
of  style  and  method  it  takes  precedence  of  the  entire  series 
of  Taylor's  productions."  The  Methodist  Quarterly  Review, 
on  its  appearance,  remarked:  "In  this  work  Mr.  Taylor 
abandons  the  line  of  spiritual  pathology,  and  takes  to  that 
of  criticism  and  prophecy."  It  elicited  "An  Apology  for 
Wesley  and  Methodism,  in  Reply  to  the  Misrepresentations 
of  Isaac  Taylor  and  the  North  British  Review,''  by  Rev.  R. 
Macbriar,  the  second  edition  of  which  was  published  at 
Edinburgh  in  1852. 

In  1856-7  a  Life  of  John  Wesley  by  J.  Beecham  was 
published  in  London  in  connection  with  the  eleventh  edi- 
tion of  Wesley's  works,  and  in  1868  appeared  in  France, 
from  the  pen  of  Matthieu  Lelievre,  "John  Wesley,  sa  Vie 
et  son  CEuvre"  The  next  year  (1869)  an  article  on  "Wes- 
ley and  Methodism  "  was  published  in  the  Revue  des  Deux 
Mondes,  from  the  pen  of  the  eminent  French  statesman, 
Charles  de  Remusat,  in  which  he  says  :  "  The  temptation, 
and  also  the  facility,  for  presenting  the  subject  to  the  pub- 
lic were  set  before  me  by  reading  an  excellent  Life  of 
Wesley  by  Pastor  Matthieu  Lelievre.  The  want  of  a  pop- 
ular Life  of  John  Wesley  had  been  expressed  among  the 
French  Methodist  Churches,  and  this  work  was  written  in 
obedience  to  an  order  of  their  conference." 

In  1870-71  appeared  in  London,  from  the  press  of  Hod- 
der  &  Stoughton,  "  The  Life  and  Times  of  the  Rev.  John 
Wesley,  M.  A.,  Founder  of  the  Methodists,"  by  the  Rev. 
L.  Tyerman,  in  three  large  volumes.  This  was  repub- 
lished by  Harper  &  Brothers  in  1872.  The  author  says 
in  his  preface :  1 1  For  seventeen  years  materials  have  been 
accumulating  in  my  hands.    My  own  mass  of  original 

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manuscripts  is  large.  Thousands  of  Methodist  letters  have 
been  lent  to  me.  Hundreds,  almost  thousands,  of  publi- 
cations, issued  in  Wesley's  life-time,  and  bearing  on  the 
great  Methodist  movement,  have  been  consulted.  Many 
of  Wesley's  letters,  hitherto  published  only  in  periodicals, 
or  in  scarce  books,  have  been  used  ;  and  not  a  few  that, 
up  to  the  present,  have  never  yet  appeared  in  print."  He 
says  he  has  tried  to  make  Wesley  his  own  biographer,  and 
has  not  attempted  what  may  be  called  a  philosophy  of  his 
life.  He  adds:  "The  work  has  been  arduous;  but  it  has 
been  a  work  of  love.  I  have  not  done  what  I  wished, 
but  what  I  could."  The  Methodist  Quarterly  Review  (Oct., 
1871)  said  of  this  book:  "  By  the  power  of  accumulation, 
by  the  incorporation  of  characteristic  extracts,  and  often 
of  entire  documents,  by  abundant  details,  animated  by  his 
own  real  interest  in  his  subject,  he  has  massed  together,  in 
lucid  order,  a  body  of  materials  to  which  the  future  his- 
torian will  ever  resort,  and  upon  which  a  class  of  enthusi- 
astic readers  will  dwell  with  interest.  He  has  done  upon 
the  whole  a  great  and  good  work,  for  which  abundant 
thanks  are  due  him.  But  the  standard  life  of  Wesley  is 
still  a  desideratum."  Mr.  Tyerraan  had  previously  (1866) 
written  the  "  Life  and  Times  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Wesley, 
M.  A.,"  and  in  1873  the  Harpers  republished  his"  Oxford 
Methodists,"  being  memoirs  of  Clayton,  Ingham,  Gambold, 
Hervey,  and  Broughton,  with  biographical  notices  of  others. 

In  the  same  year  (1870)  appeared  "John  Wesley's 
Place  in  Church  History,"  by  R.  Denny  Urlin,  and  "John 
Wesley  and  the  Evangelical  Reaction  of  the  Eighteenth 
Century,"  by  Julia  Wedgwood.  Both  books  were  written 
from  the  stand-point  of  the  Established  Church,  but  they 
add  nothing  to  the  biography  of  Mr.  Wesley.  In  Miss 
Wedgwood's  preface  she  thus  refers  to  another  of  Mr. 
Wesley's  biographers:  "I  can  nut  include  in  this  list  the 
work  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Jackson — by  far  the  most  inter- 
esting Methodist  biography  of  the  Wesleys — without  a 


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brief  allusion  to  an  interview  with  this  venerable  man, 
from  which  I  derived  a  sense  of  the  vitality  of  the  system 
of  religion  represented  by  him,  which  the  following  record, 
being  wholly  occupied  with  the  past,  could  not  attempt  to 
embody." 

In  1874  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  H.  Rigg,  principal  of  the 
Wesleyan  Training  College,  Westminster,  published  his 
work  entitled,  ''The  Living  Wesley  as  he  was  in  his  Youth 
and  in  his  Prime."  Dr.  Rigg  had  previously  written  "The 
Principles  of  Wesleyan  Methodism"  (1850),  and  in  that 
work  had  exhibited  a  remarkable  grasp  of  intellect.  In 
1851  appeared  his  "  Wesleyan  Connection  and  Congrega- 
tional Independency  Contrasted."  In  a  review  of  the 
"  Living  Wesley,"  Dr.  Whedon  expresses  regret  that  Ty- 
erman  could  not  have  been  the  collector  of  facts,  and 
Rigg  the  biographer  of  Wesley.  He  also  instituted  the 
following  comparison  between  the  two  authors :  "  Tyerman 
gives  facts  as  crude  and  uncouth  as  he  finds  them,  with- 
out the  slightest  capacity  for  their  interpretation.  Few 
men  ever  undertook  history  with  as  little  of  genuine  his- 
torical ability.  Mr.  Rigg  understands  the  true  import  of 
facts ;  he  portrays  character  with  truth  and  life ;  his  style 
is  fresh  and  pictorial,  and  he  would  have  given  us  the 
Wesley  the  world  is  longing  to  see.  We  have  read  noth- 
ing on  the  subject  surpassing  these  graceful  pages."  Dr. 
Rigg  is  also  author  of  "  The  Relations  of  John  Wesley  and 
Wesleyan  Methodism  to  the  Church  of  England." 

Numerous  other  biographies  of  Wesley,  or  works  bear- 
ing on  his  life,  have  been  published  from  time  to  time. 
Many  of  these  have  been  the  offspring  of  controversies, 
ecclesiastical  or  religious,  pertaining  to  some  particular 
period,  and  have  been,  consequently,  ephemeral.  Among 
those  worthy  of  mention  are  the  folio-wing :  Prof.  W.  C. 
Larrabee's  "Wesley  and  his  Coadjutors,"  a  series  of 
graphic  sketches  of  the  prominent  events  in  Wesley's 
wonderful  career,  with  notices  of  the  more  remarkable  of 


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his  co-laborers  (1859);  Rev.  J.  B.  Wakeley's  "Anecdotes  of 
the  Wesleys,"  a  work  of  which  Dr.  M'Clintock,  who  wrote 
the  introduction  for  it,  said:  "Mr.  Wakeley  was  happily 
inspired  in  the  conception  of  this  book,  and  the  execution 
of  the  task  has  been  felicitous*  (1869)  ;  Rev.  Edwin  L. 
Janes's  "Wesley  his  own  Historian:  Illustrations  of  his 
Character,  Labors,  and  Achievements,  from  his  own  Dia- 
ries," a  volume  which  Zions  Herald  declared  to  be  "the 
best  book  of  the  season ;  the  mightiest  man  of  ten  centu- 
ries lives  over  his  own  life  in  these  animating  pages" 
(1871);  and  in  1881  Rev.  R.  Green's  "John  Wesley" 
(London,  Paris,  and  New  York),  "a  very  admirable  pop- 
ular biography  of  the  great  reformer  of  England." 

George  Whitefield  was  one  of  the  original  "Holy 
Club,"  at  Oxford,  co-operated  with  Wesley  for  a  time  in 
evangelical  labors,  and  afterward  became  the  founder  of 
the  Calvinistic  branch  of  the  Methodists.  Numerous  biog- 
raphies have  been  written,  the  first  being  published  in 
1772,  two  years  after  his  death.  It  was  from  the  pen  of 
the  Rev.  John  Gillies,  D.  D.,  minister  of  the  College 
Church  at  Glasgow.  A  second  edition  of  this  book,  with 
large  additions  and  improvements,  was  issued  in  London 
in  1813,  and  in  1854  it  was  published  in  Philadelphia. 
It  was  also  reprinted  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  in  1823,  from 
the  third  London  edition.  The  "Life  of  Rev.  Cornelius 
Winter,"  by  William  Jay,  was  published  in  London  in 
1809,  and  Southey  says,  "this  volume  contains  a  much 
more  interesting  account  of  Whitefield  than  is  to  be  found 
in  any  Life  of  him  that  has  yet  been  published."  Among 
other  biographies  of  him  are  the  following:  "Life  and 
Times  of  Rev.  George  Whitefield,"  by  Robert  Philip,  D.  D., 
(1838)  ;  by  J.  R.  Andrews  (1864)  ;  by  Rev.  D.  A.  Har- 
sha  (Albany,  1866)  ;  "  The  Prir.ce  of  Pulpit  Orators,"  by 
Rev.  J.  B.  Wakeley  (New  York,  1871)  ;  and  in  1876  the 
Rev.  Luke  Tyerman  published  "The  Life  and  Times  of 
the  Rev.  George  Whitefield,"  a  work  of  twelve  hundred 


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pages,  published  in  two  volumes,  for  the  materials  of 
which  the  author  "spared  neither  time,  toil,  nor  money."  It 
is  the  best  biography  of  Whitefield  extant.  Like  Wesley, 
he  has  been  variously  regarded.  Garrick,  who  delighted 
to  hear  him,  said  that  he  could  make  his  audience  weep  or 
tremble  merely  by  varying  his  pronunciation  of  the  word 
Mesopotamia.  Sir  James  Stephen,  in  the  Edinburgh  Re- 
view, thus  sums  up  his  character  and  abilities  :  "From  the 
days  of  Paul  of  Tarsus  and  Martin  Luther  to  our  own, 
history  records  the  career  of  no  man  who,  with  a  less 
alloy  of  motives  terminating  in  self,  or  of  passions  break- 
ing loose  from  the  control  of  reason,  concentrated  all  the 
faculties  of  his  soul  with  such  intensity  and  perseverance 
for  the  accomplishment  of  one  grand  design.  Whitefield 
was  a  great  and  a  holy  man ;  among  the  foremost  of  the 
heroes  of  philanthropy ;  and,  as  a  preacher,  without  a 
superior  or  a  rival."  Lord  Bolingbroke,  in  his  life  of  the 
Countess  of  Huntingdon,  says  that  he  was  "  the  most 
extraordinary  man  in  our  times.  He  has  the  most  com- 
manding eloquence  I  ever  heard  in  any  person ;  his  abil- 
ities are  very  considerable ;  his  zeal  unquestionable ;  and 
his  piety  and  excellence  genuine — unquestionable."  When 
preaching  Whitefield's  funeral  sermon  Mr.  Wesley  spoke 
of  his  Journals  thus:  "For  their  artless  and  unaffected 
simplicity  they  may  vie  with  any  writing  of  the  kind. 
If  Mr.  Whitefield  has  left  any  papers  of  this  kind,  and 
his  friends  account  me  worthy,  it  will  be  my  glory  and 
joy  to  methodize,  transcribe,  and  prepare  them  for  the 
public  view."    This  work  has  been  done  by  Dr.  Wakeley. 

The  Kev.  John  Fletcher,  whose  original  name  was  De 
la  Flechere,  and  whose  first  religious  exercise  after  ordina- 
tion was  to  assist  Wesley  in  administering  the  sacrament 
at  West  Street- Chapel,  was  afterward  very  closely  identi- 
fied with  the  Methodist  movement,  and  his  life  is  of  the 
most  exemplary  character.  Southey  says  that  Wesley 
looked  to  him  at  one  time  as  the  fittest  person  to  act  as 


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his  coadjutor,  and  succeed  to  as  much  of  his  authority  as 
could  be  deputed  to  any  successor.  "The  Life  of  the 
Rev.  Jolm  William  De  la  Flechere,"  compiled  from  the 
Narrative  of  Mr.  Wesley,  and  other  authentic  documents, 
particularly  the  "Biographical  Notes"  of  the  He  v.  Mr. 
Gilpiu,  was  published  in  London  in  1817,  and  reached  its 
eleventh  edition  in  1839.  It  was  also  published,  edited 
by  Dr.  T.  O.  Summers,  in  Nashville,  in  1857,  and  is  now 
published  at  the  Methodist  Book  Concern  in  a  12mo  edi- 
tion. In  1786  a  Life  of  Fletcher  was  written  by  Archi- 
bald Maclaine,  D.  D.,  the  translator  of  Mosheim's  "  Ec- 
clesiastical History."  Dr.  E.  Williams,  in  the  Christian 
Preacher,  says  he  was  "one  of  the  holiest  men  that  the 
Christian  Church  has  seen  in  modern  times."  A  "  Me- 
moir of  Rev.  John  Fletcher"  was  published  by  Rev. 
Joseph  Benson,  in  1830.  Fletcher's  works  contain  an 
unanswerable  defense  of  the  doctrine  of  original  sin,  and 
of  the  Godhead  of  Christ ;  with  a  "  Portrait  of  St.  Paul," 
which  every  minister  should  carefully  study.  "His  writings 
are  distinguished  by  uncommon  clearness  and  strength  of 
argument,  an  uninterrupted  flow  of  sacred  eloquence,  and 
a  benevolence  of  temper  which  has  seldom  been  equaled." 

In  1806  appeared  the  "  Life  and  Writings  of  the  late 
Rev.  William  GrimshawT,  A.  B.,  Minister  of  Ha  worth,  in 
the  West  Riding  of  the  County  of  York.  By  William 
Myles."  There  had  previously  (1799)  been  published  his 
"  Memoirs,"  by  the  Rev.  John  Newton,  rector  of  St.  Mary 
Wolnooth,  but  this  work  all  but  ignores  Mr.  Grimshaw's 
connection  with  the  Methodists.  In  1859  the  biographer 
of  Jabez  Bunting,  in  speaking  of  Grimshaw,  exclaimed : 
"  Would  that  some  Birks,  Hamilton,  or  Arthur  would 
collect,  arrange,  and  publish  the  materials  still  available 
for  the  biography  of  this  intrepid  churchman  and  Meth- 
odist!" At  that  very  time,  the  Rev.  R.  Spence  Hardy 
was  preparing  a  work  entitled  "  William  Grimshaw,  In- 
cumbent of  Haworth,  1742-63,"  which  was  published  in 


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1860.  Mr.  Hardy  has  rescued  from  oblivion  the  memory 
of  this  zealous  laborer  whom  Dr.  Stevens  denominates 
"  the  catholic-minded  Grimshaw,  evangelically  the  arch- 
bishop of  Yorkshire,"  and  the  volume  forms  a  most  cap- 
tivating and  instructive  chapter  in  the  history  of  early 
Methodism.  Charlotte  Bronte's  biography  has,  in  our 
time,  made  his  dwelling  a  place  of  fashionable  pilgrimage; 
but  a  greater  attraction  to  devout  minds  of  that  lone  stone 
village  on  the  Yorkshire  moors  is  that  there  dwelt  one  of 
the  bravest  and  most  humble  spirits  that  ever  graced  the 
Christian  Church. 

In  1815  the  < '  Life  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Coke,"  by  Jona- 
than Crowther,  was  published.  Two  years  afterward 
(1817)  appeared  another  Life  of  Coke,  by  Samuel  Drew, 
of  St.  Austell,  Cornwall,  which  was  republished  in  New 
York  in  1837.  In  1860  the  Rev.  Dr.  Etheridge  pub- 
lished his  work  on  the  same  subject.  Dr.  Coke  was  un- 
questionably one  of  the  mos>  useful  men  of  his  eventful 
and  stirring  age.  While  he  lived  he  commanded  a  large 
amount  of  public  respect,  and  when  he  died  it  was  felt 
that  the  world  had  lost  one  of:  its  ornaments  and  bene- 
factors; the  consequence  was,  the  two  ample  narratives 
of  Crowther  and  Drew,  the  first  of  which  consists  mostly  of 
official  documents  illustrative  of  Dr.  Coke's  publi*  service, 
with  the  personal  recollections  of  the  author,  and  the 
other,  prepared  with  great  care,  from  the  private  papers 
of  Dr.  Coke,  but  written  with  the  intent  of  producing  an 
elegant  and  scholarly  narrative,  and  lacking  in  deep  sym- 
pathy with  the  burning  ardor  of  Dr.  Coke's  missionary 
operations.  In  consequence  of  these  two  comparative 
failures,  for  nearly  half  a  -century  there  was  a  yearning 
in  the  Methodist  mind  for  a  volume  that  should  exhibit 
Dr.  Coke  as  he  really  was  in  intellect  and  feeling,  and 
give  a  full  detail  of  the  vast  amount  of  evangelical  labors 
which  he  was  called  to  accomplish.  Such  a  volume  came 
at  last  from  the  pen  of  J.  W.  Etheridge,  who  produced  a 


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narrative  worthy  of  being  placed  by  the  side  of  the  admir- 
able life  of  Adam  Clarke,  by  the  same  author.  Dr.  Coke 
was  originally  a  clergyman  of  the  Church  of  England,  and 
a  member  of  the  University  of  Oxford  ;  he  resigned  his 
curacy  in  1776,  and  thenceforward  connected  himself  with 
Mr.  Wesley.  Inheriting  a  considerable  fortune,  he  gave 
more  money  to  religion  than  any  other  man  of  his  age, 
clergyman  or  layman ;  voyaged  and  traveled  more  for  the 
evangelization  of  the  world  than  any  other  man  of  the 
last  century,  not  excepting  Whitefield  or  Wesley;  the 
"greatest  man  of  his  century  in  ministerial  labors,"  as 
Bishop  Asbury,  himself  one  of  the  greatest,  declared  ;  the 
first  Protestant  bishop  of  the  Western  Hemisphere  ;  the 
founder  of  powerful  missions  in  England,  Wales,  the  West 
Indies,  Africa,  Asia  ;  and  died  himself  a  missionary  on  the 
Indian  Ocean,  and  was  buried  beneath  its  waters. 

In  1816  the  "  Life  of  Samuel  Bradburn,"  by  his  daugh- 
ter, Eliz.  W.  Bradburn,  was  published  in  London.  Mr. 
Bradburn  was  for  many  years  esteemed  the  Demosthenes 
of  Methodism,  and  is  placed  by  Dr.  Wakeley  among  her 
"Heroes."  A  man  of  gigantic  stature  and  of  noble  person, 
with  an  extraordinary  amount  of  mingled  humor  and  pa- 
thos, Dr.  Adam  Clarke  said  of  him  :  'k  I  have  never  heard 
his  equal.  I  can  furnish  you  with  no  adequate  ideas  of  his 
power  as  an  orator.  We  have  not  a  man  among  us  that 
will  support  any  thing  like  a  comparison  with  him.  An- 
other Bradburn  must  be  created ;  and  you  must  hear  him 
for  yourself."  The  biographer  of  Jabez  Bunting  says: 
"The  biography  of  this  extraordinary  man,  attempted  by 
a  daughter  immediately  after  his  decease,  under  circum- 
stances of  great  discouragemement,  has  yet  to  be  written." 

Iso  name  in  the  history  of  Methodism,  after  John  Wes- 
ley's, is  more  widely  and  honorably  known  than  that  of 
Adam  Clarke.  "His  Commentary  on  the  Scriptures," 
says  Allibone,  "  will  carry  his  name  to  the  remotest  gen- 
eration."   A  copious  life  of  Dr.  Clarke,  including  a  curious 


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and  characteristic  autobiography,  appeared  in  Loudon  in 
1832-34,  in  three  volumes,  8vo,  edited  by  his  sou,  Rev. 
J.  B.  B.  Clarke,  and  was  republished  by  the  Methodist 
Book  Concern  in  New  York  in  1833.  Various  members 
of  his  family,  as  well  as  some  of  his  most  intimate  friends, 
had  frequently  and  urgeutly  pressed  Dr.  Clarke  to  publish, 
or  prepare  f  ji*  publication,  a  memoir  of  himself.  This  he 
steadily  refused  until  he  learned  that  a  life  of  him  was 
even  then  in  preparation.  This  induced  him  to  undertake 
its  preparation,  and  in  June,  1819,  he  writes  from  Liver- 
pool :  "  And  thus  have  I  brought  myself  on  in  my  journey 
through  life  to  the  ninth  year  of  my  age ;  and  unless  death 
do  stop  me,  I  shall  not  stop  in  it  till  this  be  finished.  I 
have  Avritten  it  in  the  third  person  as  to  the  subject,  and 
in  the  first  person  as  to  the  narrator."  On  the  3d  of  July 
he  writes:  "I  go  on  but  slowly  with  the  Life;  and  yet  I 
get  on.  A  few  pages  more  might  terminate  what  may  be 
called  my  initial  and  religious  history ;  and  here  I  might 
leave  it,  for  all  the  purposes  of  illustrating  either  God's 
providence  or  his  grace.  My  literary  life,  as  it  may  be 
called,  is  another  thing,  and  belongs  more  to  the  world 
than  to  the  Church  of  God  ;  and  I  question  if  ever  I  shall 
attempt  it."  The  remainder  of  his  life  was  written  by  his 
daughter,  Mrs.  Richard  Smith,  from  data  furnished  her  by 
Dr.  Clarke  himself.  But  the  book  never  supplied  the 
wants  of  the  general  public  as  a  life  of  Dr.  Clarke.  Too 
bulky  for  general  and  cheap  circulation,  and  too  minute 
and  prolix  for  easy  reading,  it  affords  a  repository  of  facts 
for  the  biographer  rather  than  a  biography  itself.  "The 
Life  and  Labors  of  Adam  Clarke,  LL.  D.,"  was  also  writ- 
ten by  Rev.  Edward  Hare;  and  in  1843  appeared  "Adam 
Clarke  Portrayed,"  by  Rev.  James  Everett.  The  Rev.  Dr. 
Deems  has  also  written  his  life.  But  Adam  Clarke,  the 
conscientious  and  pains-taking  student;  the  various  scholar; 
the  preacher,  careful,  plain  when  most  profound,  and  al- 
ways evangelical,  pointed,  and  earnest ;  the  diligent  pastor ; 

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this  great,  colossal  figure,  whose  bold  outline  and  fine  pro- 
portions can  never  be  hid,  has  been  placed  by  Dr.  J.  W. 
Etheridge  on  a  fitting  pedestal,  and  fixed  in  its  true  posi- 
tion, conspicuous  in  the  gallery  of  connectional  heroes. 
His  Life  of  Adam  Clarke  appeared  in  Loudon  in  1858, 
and  was  republished  by  Carlton  and  Porter  in  1859.  In 
this  work  Dr.  Etheridge  evinces  that  first  requisite  of  a 
biographer,  a  true  and  hearty  sympathy  with  the  subject 
of  his  work,  in  a  high  degree.  He  discrimiuates  well  amid 
the  vast  mass  of  extant  material,  selecting  the  salient 
points  of  Dr.  Clarke's  varied  career,  and  presenting  them 
clearly  and  boldly.  The  American  edition  says:  "Most 
of  all  is  the  work  valuable  as  the  history  of  a  true  and 
earnest  Christian  life,  simple  and  modest  in  its  profession, 
but  manly  and  robust  to  the  highest  degree  in  its  realities." 
The  Christian  Preacher  said  :  "  Dr.  Adam  Clarke  has  done 
more  to  promote  the  popular  study  of  the  sacred  books 
in  England  than  any  other  man  whatever ;  aud  at  the 
same  time  he  has  carefully  applied  them  to  the  advance- 
ment of  personal  godliness." 

In  1820  was  published  a  "Memoir  of  the  Life  and 
Ministry  of  William  Bramwell,"  written  by  Rev.  James 
Sigston,  an  old  and  valued  friend,  and  a  minister  of  the 
United  Methodist  Free  Churches.  This  book  has  had  an 
immense  circulation  both  in  England  and  America,  and  is 
still  a  popular  work  of  Methodist  literature.  For  more 
than  thirty  years  Bramwell  was  one  of  the  most  successful 
preachers  of  Methodism — a  revivalist,  in  the  best  sense  of 
that  term.  Dr.  Stevens  says:  "The  records  of  Method- 
ism are  crowded  with  examples  of  saintly  living ;  but  from 
among  them  all  no  instance  of  profounder  piety  can  be 
cited  than  that  of  William  Bramwell."  Another  "Life 
of  William  Bramwell,"  by  Thoma-s  Harris,  was  published 
in  1855.  The  biographer  of  Jabez  Bunting  speaks  of  "  his 
deep  piety  and  fervent  zeal,"  and  says:  "A  biography 
might  still  be  written  of  him  which  should  exhibit  his  ex- 


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ample  to  the  imitation  of  the  Methodist  people,  without, 
on  the  one  hand,  any  enthusiastic  eulogy  of  his  defects, 
or,  on  the  other,  too  much  effort  to  conceal  them." 

In  1822  the  "Memoirs  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Benson," 
by  James  A.  Macdonald,  appeared  in  London,  and  after- 
ward in  New  York  (8vo),  and  in  1840  a  Life  by  Richard 
Treffry,  which  was  also  republished  in  New  Yoik.  Adam 
Clarke  calls  Mr.  Benson  "  a  sound  scholar,  a  powerful  and 
able  preacher,  and  a  profound  theologian."  Besides  his 
useful  and  elaborate  "  Commentary  on  the  Holy  Scriptures" 
(sixth  edition,  1848),  he  was  the  author  of  several  works 
on  Methodism,  such  as  "A  Defense  of  the  Methodists" 
(1793)  ;  "  A  Farther  Defense  of  the  Methodists"  (1793) ; 
"  A  Vindication  of  the  People  called  Methodists"  (1800); 
and  "An  Apology  for  the  People  called  Methodists" 
(1801).  His  deep  and  matured  piety,  great  usefulness, 
sanctified  learning,  and  disinterested  zeal  in  giving  the 
whole  of  his  literary  labors  to  the  connection  of  which  he 
was  a  member,  procured  for  him  the  profoundest  respect 
and  most  cordial  affection,  which  extended  beyond  his  own 
denomination.  Very  few  men  have  been  better  read  in 
the  Greek  Testament,  and  few  commentators  have  given 
so  clear  an  exposition  of  it.  But  it  was  in  the  pulpit  that 
Mr.  Benson  brought  those  gifts  and  graces  to  bear  upon 
the  great  end  of  all,  the  salvation  of  souls.  While  he 
preached,  the  scholar  and  the  peasant  bowed  in  common 
before  the  majesty  of  truth,  which,  in  plain,  unadorned 
English  phrases,  awoke  them  as  with  the  thunders  of 
Sinai,  or  melted  them  as  with  the  voice  from  the  cross.  His 
sermons  were  attended,  not  only  by  the  common  clergy, 
but  by  bishops  of  the  established  Church.  That  great  and 
good  man,  the  Rev.  Richard  Cecil,  greatly  delighted  to 
to  hear  him.  He  said  that  Mr.  Benson  seemed  like  a 
messenger  sent  from  the  other  world  to  call  men  to  ac- 
count. "Mr.  Benson,"  says  Robert  Hall,  "is  irresistible, 
perfectly  irresistible."    A  masterly  delineation  of  his  char- 


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acter,  from  the  pen  of  the  Kev.  Dr.  Bunting,  appears  in 
the  Wesleyan  Magazine  for  1822.  Mr.  Benson  was  also  the 
author  of  "Memoirs  of  Peard  Dickinson,"  and  several 
other  biographical  volumes. 

In  1829  appeared  a  "  Memoir  of  the  Life  and  Ministry 
of  Rev.  John  Summerfield,"  by  John  Holland  (8vo,  New 
York),  with  an  Introductory  Letter  by  the  poet,  James 
Montgomery.  Mr.  Summerfield  was  one  of  the  most  elo- 
quent pulpit  orators  that  has  ever  appeared  in  America; 
yet  James  Montgomery,  who  read  some  of  his  discourses 
in  manuscript,  observed,  "  The  sermons  are  less  calculated 
for  instantaneous  effect  than  for  abiding  usefulness."  His 
Life  was  also  written  by  Rev.  W.  M.  Willett,  and  pub- 
lished in  Philadelphia  in  1857.  Such  was  his  peculiar  and 
chastened  eloquence  that  persons  of  all  denominations  and 
of  all  classes  and  professions  in  society  flocked  in  crowds 
to  hear  him,  and  his  services  were  sought  for  on  all  popu- 
lar religious  occasions.  He  ran  his  race  speedily,  like  the 
torch-bearer  in  the  Grecian  games,  reaching  the  terminus 
with  it  still  blazing.  In  the  same  year  (1829)  was  pub- 
lished the  Life  of  Rev.  Freeborn  Garrettson,  written  by 
Dr.  N.  Bangs.  This  is  one  of  our  best  biographies,  not 
only  precious  to  the  Church  as  a  memoir  of  one  of  her 
□oblest  preachers,  but  also  valuable  as  a  contribution  to 
the  history  of  Methodism.  Freeborn  Garrettson,  says  the 
North  American  Review,  was  "  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  successful  of  the  first  generation  of  Methodist 
preachers." 

In  1834  was  published  the  "  Memoirs  of  the  Life  and 
Writings  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Watson,"  by  Rev.  Thomas 
Jackson,  which  was  republished  by  the  Methodist  Book 
Concern  in  New  York  in  1841.  A  generation  has  passed 
away  since  Richard  Watson,  author  of  the  Theological 
Institutes,  in  the  very  prime  of  his  strength,  finished  a 
course  of  honor  and  usefulness  peculiarly  his  own,  and 
which  none  who  ever  knew  him  aspired  to  emulate.  But 


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neither  his  own  published  works,  nor  the  funeral  discourse 
delivered  by  Jabez  Buutiug,  nor  eveu  Mr.  Jackson's  com- 
prehensive Memoir,  convey  to  the  reader  unfamiliar  with 
Watson  an  adequate  conception  of  the  majesty  of  his  per- 
son, demeanor,  speech,  and  entire  intellectual  and  moral 
character.  As  a  preacher,  his  genius  soared  as  high  as 
that  of  the  great  Chalmers,  and  with  a  steadier  wing ;  he 
had  more  of  profundity  and  breadth  than  the  eloquent 
Robert  Hall ;  and  with  his  pulpit  exercises  was  mingled  a 
strain  of  solemn  and  often  pensive  sentiment,  reminding 
one  of  John  Foster's  best  compositions. 

In  1838  appeared  in  London  a  "Life  of  Mrs.  Mary 
Fletcher,  of  Madeley,"  wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Fletcher,  by 
Rev.  Henry  Moore.  This  work  was  subsequently  published 
by  the  Book  Concern,  and  has  met  with  an  extensive  circu- 
lation. Samuel  Burder,  in  his  "Memoirs  of  Eminently 
Pious  British  Women"  (1815),  says:  "Had  she  lived  in 
the  apostolic  age  she  would  have  taken  rank  among  the 
presbyteresses  or  female  confessors  of  the  primitive  Church. 
Had  she  been  born  in  a  Roman  Catholic  country  she 
would  doubtless  have  been  enrolled  among  the  saints  of 
the  calendar."  In  the  same  year  (1838)  also  appeared  in 
London  "The  Life  of  the  Rev.  Alexander  Kilham,"  for- 
merly a  preacher  under  John  Wesley,  but  in  1797  the 
founder  of  the  Methodist  New  Connection.  The  work 
appeared  anonymously,  but  it  is  understood  to  have  been 
written  by  Black  well. 

PART  II. 

In  the  year  1839  appeared  "  A  Sketch  of  the  Life  and 
Travels  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Ware,"  of  the  Philadelphia 
Conference,  elected  Book  Agent  in  1812,  and  a  "  Memoir 
of  William  Carvosso,"  written  by  himself,  and  edited  by 
his  son,  Benjamin  Carvosso.  In  1879  the  Rev.  Dr.  Wise 
published  at  the  Methodist  Book  Concern,  "A  Saintly 
and  Successful  Worker,"  suggested  by  the  experience  and 


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labors  of  William  Carvosso.  He  was  sixty  years  a  class- 
leader  iu  the  Wesleyan  Connection,  and  his  memoir  is  one 
of  the  Methodist  classics.  His  whole  life  was  a  wonder- 
ful illustration  of  the  power  of  Christian  faith,  and  his 
visits,  prayers,  and  exhortations  were  the  means  of  hun- 
dreds of  conversions.  His  own  record  is  that  of  a  simple, 
earnest,  and  devout  Christian. 

In  1840  was  published  the  "Life  of  Bishop  Emory," 
by  his  son,  Rev.  Robert  Emory,  author  of  the  "History 
of  the  Discipline."  Bishop  Emory  was  characterized  by 
"accuracy  of  scholarship,  broad  and  comprehensive  views, 
fertility  of  genius,  and  administrative  ability."  His  writ- 
ings were  mainly  controversial,  among  them  being  a  "De- 
fense of  Our  Fathers"  (1827),  and  "The  Episcopal  Con- 
troversy Reviewed"  (1838). 

In  1840  also  appeared  the  "  Life  and  Times  of  the 
Countess  of  Huntingdon."  The  anonymous  author  of  this 
work  has  abused  the  Wesleys  in  many  false  details  in  his 
sketch  of  the  separation  of  Wesley  and  Whitefield.  In 
1857  the  Methodist  Book  Concern  printed  "Lady  Hunt- 
ingdon Portrayed,"  published  anonymously,  but  now  known 
to  have  been  from  the  pen  of  Prof.  Z.  A.  Mudge.  He  has 
clothed  the  narrative  with  no  ordinary  grace  of  style.  The 
subject  of  it,  though  remotely  connected  with  the  royal 
family  and  moving  in  the  highest  circle  of  aristocratic  life, 
frequented  the  Moravian  societies  in  London,  and  at  the 
separation  of  Wesley  from  them,  co-operated  with  the 
Methodist  party.  "  Her  Calvinistic  opinions  led  her  to 
patronize  Whitefield  when  he  separated  from  Wesley,  and 
her  talents,  wealth,  and  influence  placed  her  at  the  head 
of  Calvinistic  Methodism." 

The  first  distinctive  biography  of  Charles  Wesley,  the 
hymnist  of  Methodism,  was  written  by  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Jackson,  and  published  in  London  in  1841,  and  in  1844  it 
was  republished  in  New  York,  slightly  altered.  Previous 
to  that  time  his  biographies  were  written  in  connection 


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with  his  brother  John,  Whitehead  having  in  1793,  and 
Moore  in  1824,  written  the  "  Lives  of  John  and  Charles 
Wesley."  These  were  followed,  in  1849,  by  the  "Journal 
of  Charles  Wesley,"  edited  by  Jaekson,  with  selections 
from  his  correspondence  and  poetry,  and  an  Introduction  ; 
"The  Poet  Preacher,"  by  Charles  Adams,  D.  D.  (1859); 
Rev.  John  Kirk's  "  Charles  Wesley,  the  Poet  of  Method- 
ism "  (1860);  Rev.  Frederick  M.  Bird's  "Charles  Wesley, 
Seen  in  his  Finer  and  Less  Familiar  Poems"  (1867)  ;  and 
George  Stevenson's  "  Memorials  of  the  Wesley  Family" 
(1876),  a  work  pronounced  "  invaluable,"  and  made  up 
of  papers  originally  in  the  possession  of  Rev.  Henry  Moore, 
but  never  used  by  him.  The  Wesleys  issued  fifty-seven 
publications  of  hymns,  of  which  Charles  Wesley  composed 
over  four  thousand.  Bird  calls  him  "  the  prince  of  En- 
glish hymnists,"  and  James  Freeman  Clarke  says  "  for  the 
union  of  love  and  light,  spiritual  insight  and  poetic  free- 
dom, there  is  nothing  to  be  compared  to  the  best  hymns 
of  Charles  Wesley." 

In  1842  was  published  "The  Life  of  the  Rev.  Wilbur 
Fisk,  D.  D. ,"  written  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hoklich,  and  in 
McClintock's  "Lives  of  Methodist  Ministers"  there  is  a 
sketch  of  Fisk  by  the  Rev.  O.  H.  Tiffany.  Dr.  Holdich 
was  his  chosen  biographer,  and  this  Life  "  is  a  deeply  in- 
teresting portraiture."  Dr.  Fisk  may  be  pronounced  the 
founder  of  the  educational  provisions  of  New  England 
Methodism,  and  in  the  "  Centenary  Memories,"  published 
in  The  Methodist,  it  is  said  that  when  he  entered  the  min- 
istry in  1818,  "  there  was  not  a  single  institution  of  any 
note  under  the  patronage  of  the  Church.  .  .  .  The  North- 
ern and  Eastern  Conferences  united  to  found  the  Wcsleyan 
University  at  Middletown,  and  Dr.  Fisk  naturally,  and 
without  a  rival,  was  chosen  its  president  in  1830.  .  .  .  And 
when,  in  1836,  he  was  elected  bishop,  he  declined  the 
office."  He  had  previously  declined  the  episcopal  office 
in  the  Canada  Conference,  to  which  he  had  been  elected  in 


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1828.  "As  a  preacher,"  says  McClintock  and  Strong's 
Encyclopaedia,  "  few  surpassed  him  in  eloquence,  none  in 
fervor."  Dr.  Whedon  says,  "His  friends  have  compared 
him  for  his  gentle  piety  to  Fenelon ;  but  it  is  certain 
that  when  aroused  he  could  assume  something  of  the  im- 
perious type  of  Bossuet." 

In  1847  the  Rev.  William  Reilly  published  in  London 
his  "Memorial  of  the  Ministerial  Life  of  the  Rev.  Gideon 
Ouseley,"  which  was  republished .  by  Lane  &  Tippett,  in 
New  York,  in  1848.  The  author  wTas  requested  by  the 
Irish  AVesleyan  Methodist  Conference,  in  1839,  to  prepare 
these  Memoirs,  but  the  work  did  not  appear  for  several 
years  afterward.  In  1876,  Rev.  Dr.  Arthur,  author  of 
"The  Tongue  of  Fire,"  wrote  a  Life  of  Ouseley,  which 
was  published  in  London  and  New  York.  The  minutes 
of  the  conference  characterize  Ouseley  as  "the  most  dis- 
tinguished, efficient,  and  successful  Irish  missionary  ever 
employed  by  our  religious  community,"  and  Dr.  Stevens 
says  he  "  will  be  forever  recognized  as  the  Protestant 
apostle  of  Ireland."  Thousands  among  the  Roman  Cath- 
olics listened  to  his  ministrations,  and  the  fruit  of  his 
labors  are  still  abundant. 

In  1848  the  Rev.  David  Dailey,  of  the  Philadelphia 
Conference,  published  a  book  entitled  "Experience  and 
Ministerial  Labors  of  the  Rev.  David  Smith,"  which  he 
compiled  chiefly  from  a  journal  kept  by  Mr.  Smith.  It  is 
a  record  of  a  wonderful  series  of  Gospel  triumphs.  In  the 
same  year  also  appeared  from  the  Southern  Methodist 
press  "The  Life  and  Times  of  the  Rev.  Jesse  Lee,"  the 
apostle  of  Methodism  in  New  England.  It  was  written  by 
his  nephew,  the  Rev.  Leroy  M.  Lee,  D.  D.  (recently  de- 
ceased), who  realized  some  difficulty  in  its  preparation. 
Jesse  Lee  left  a  very  copious  journal  of  his  life  and  min- 
isterial labors,  and  these  were  given  to  the  Virginia  Con- 
ference, and  by  that  body  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  commit- 
tee to  be  prepared  for  publication.    In  the  burning  of  the 


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Methodist  Book  Concern  in  New  York,  in  1836,  the  man- 
uscripts of  Mr.  Lee,  which  had  been  deposited  there  for 
safe  keeping,  were  entirely  destroyed.  But  the  "  History 
of  the  Methodists"  (1809),  written  by  Jesse  Lee,  con- 
tained many  important  passages  of  his  own  personal  his- 
tory, and  the  story  of  his  labors  and  triumphs  in  New 
England,  constituting  one  of  the  most  interesting  periods 
of  his  life,  was  detailed  at  length  in  Dr.  Stevens's  ani- 
mated "  Memorials  of  the  Introduction  of  Methodism  in 
the  Eastern  States."  A  brief  and  rather  meager  Me- 
moir of  Jesse  Lee,  by  Kev.  Minton  Thrift,  was  published 
in  1823 ;  but  this  work  was  not  only  unsatisfactory  to  the 
immediate  friends  of  Mr.  Lee,  but  it  disappointed  the 
expectations  of  the  whole  Church.  At  one  period  Mr.  Lee 
filled  the  office  of  chaplain  to  Congress,  and  in  1800  he 
received  a  tie  vote  for  bishop  on  the  ballot  preceding  that 
which  elected  Whateoat  by  a  majority  of  two. 

In  1850  Judge  McLean,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States,  published  a  "  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  Kev. 
John  Collins,  late  of  the  Ohio  Conference."  Mr.  Collins 
was  one  of  the  pioneer  preachers  of  the  West,  and 
preached,  in  1804,  the  first  Methodist  sermon  that  was 
ever  preached  in  Cincinnati.  In  1854  the  same  author, 
turning  aside  from  the  preparation  of  two  large  volumes 
of  the  "  Statesman's  Manual,"  wrote  and  caused  to  be  pub- 
lished a  "Sketch  of  Rev.  Philip  Gatch  "  (Cincinnati,  18mo). 
Dr.  Sprague,  the  eminent  Presbyterian  minister,  and  au- 
thor of  the  "  Annals  of  the  American  Pulpit,"  says  of  the 
author  of  these  books:  "Judge  McLean  was,  during  his 
whole  life,  a  Methodist ;  but  a  Christian  of  nobler  type,  or 
one  who  was  more  at  home  in  heavenly  places,  than  he 
you  would  have  to  search  for  a  long  time  before  you  would 
find  him." 

In  1851  the  Rev.  John  F.  Wright,  of  the  Ohio  Con- 
ference, published  "  Sketches  of  the  Life  and  Labors  of 
the  Rev.  James  Quinn,"  who  was  for  nearly  half  a  century 


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a  successful  minister  of  the  Gospel,  and  labored  in  connec- 
tion with  other  early  pioneers  of  Methodism  on  the  Amer- 
ican frontier,  suffering  and  achieving  in  behalf  of  religion 
and  civilization.  And  in  that  year  also  appeared  the  "Life 
of  Rev.  Orange  Scott,"  by  Rev.  L.  C.  Matlack,  printed  at 
the  AVesleyan  Book-room,  New  York.  Mr.  Scott  was  the 
founder  of  the  "Wesleyans"  in  America,  having  with- 
drawn from  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  1842. 
The  memoir  characterizes  him  as  a  faithful  pastor,  a  bold 
reformer,  and  a  godly  man. 

In  1852  Dr.  Arthur  published  his  "  Successful  Mer- 
chant," an  attractive  biography  of  Samuel  Budgett,  a  man 
who  commenced  trade  at  ten  years  of  age  by  picking  up  a 
horse-shoe  and  selling  it  for  a  penny,  and  ended  at  the  age 
Of  fifty-six  as  one  of  the  largest  merchants  of  the  West  of 
England  ;  and  in  1851-2  the  Rev.  B.  St.  James  Fry  pub- 
lished the  Lives  of  the  three  bishops,  "  Whatcoat,  McKen- 
dree,  and  George."  These  men  left  such  meager  materials 
behind  them  that  all  previous  attempting  biographers  were 
able  only  to  produce  sketches  a  little  more  detailed  than 
are  allotted  to  all  deceased  ministers  in  the  minutes  of  the 
conferences.  Dr.  Fry  used  the  materials  very  skillfully, 
and  the  three  lives,  bound  in  a  single  volume,  form  an  in- 
teresting record.  The  "  Life  and  Times  of  Bishop  McKen- 
dree"  has  also  been  written  by  Rev.  Robert  Paine,  one 
of  the  bishops  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South. 
Judge  McLean  says  of  McKendree :  "  He  was  in  the  high- 
est sense  an  eloquent  man.  With  great  simplicity  and 
grace  of  delivery  he  united  a  force  and  beauty  of  illustra- 
tion that  approached  nearer  to  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount 
than  I  ever  heard  from  any  one  else." 

In  1853  Harper  and  Brothers  published  "  The  Life  and 
Letters  of  Stephen  Olin,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,"  in  two  volumes. 
The  book  was  edited  by  Drs.  McClintock,  Holdich,  and 
other  friends  of  the  deceased.  The  intellect  of  the  subject 
of  this  book  was  of  that  imperial  rank  to  which  few  only 


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107 


can  lay  claim.  At  ouce  acute,  penetrating,  and  profound, 
he  lacked  none  of  the  elements  of  true  greatness.  In  over- 
mastering power  in  the  pulpit  it  is  doubted  whether,  liv- 
ing, he  had  a  rival,  or,  dying,  he  has  left  his  like  among 
men.  The  late  Bishop  Wightman,  of  South  Carolina,  was 
deeply  impressed  with  Oliu's  pulpit  eloquence,  and  recorded 
his  admiration  in  terms  the  most  enthusiastic  which  the 
language  affords.  Rufus  Choate  said  that  "  his -preaching 
was  characterized  by  the  same  rare  combination  of  forcible 
thought  and  deep  feeling  that  gave  the  preaching  of  Chal- 
mers its  great  power."  The  North  Amerieaii  Review  said 
"  he  was  a  great  man  in  the  best  sense  of  the  word." 

In  1854  Morton  and  Griswold,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  pub- 
lished "The  Life  of  Henry  B.  Bascom,  D. D. ,"  by  Rev. 
M.  M.  Henkle,  D.  D.,  and  a  memoir  was  also  written 
of  Bascom  by  Bishop  H.  H.  Kavanaugh.  Although  Dr. 
Bascom  never  went  to  school  until  he  was  twelve  years  of 
age,  he  became  one  of  the  most  distinguished  orators  of  the 
nation,  was  elected  chaplain  to  Congress  in  1823,  called  to 
the  presidency  of  Madison  College  in  1827,  became  profes- 
sor of  morals  in  Augusta  College  in  1832,  was  president 
of  Transylvania  University  in  1842,  elected  to  the  editor- 
ship of  the  Quarterly  Review  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  South  in  1846,  and  bishop  of  that  Church  in 
1850.  Henry  Clay  pronounced  him  to  be  the  most  elo- 
quent man  he  had  ever  heard  open  his  lips.  In  that  year 
also  (1854)  was  published  at  the  Western  Book  Concern 
the  "  Sketches  of  Western  Methodism,"  by  Rev.  James  B. 
Finley,  who  had  the  year  before  published  his  "Autobiog- 
raphy ;  or,  Pioneer  Life  in  the  West."  The  latter  was 
edited  by  Dr.  Strickland,  and  is  a  book  full  of  the  stirring 
incident  that  marks  every  truthful  record  of  American 
pioneer  life.  Besides  the  history  of  Mr.  Finley's  early  life 
and  ministry,  the  work  contains  memorials  of  Asbury, 
McKendree,  Young,  John  P.  Finley,  Christie,  and  the 
two  Wyandot  chiefs,  Mononcue  and  Between-the-logs. 


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In  1855  the  New  York  Book  Concern  issued  "The 
Life  and  Times  of  Rev.  Elijah  Hedding,  D.  D.,"  written 
by  Rev.  D.  W.  Clark,  D.  D.  From  an  intimacy  con- 
tracted during  the  last  years  of  his  life,  Bishop  Hedding 
requested  Dr.  (afterward  Bishop)  Clark  to  take  his  papers 
and  prepare  his  biography,  if  any  should  be  demanded  ; 
and  this  book  is  the  result.  The  original  intention  of  the 
biographer  was  to  make  a  personal  biography ;  but  find- 
ing Hedding's  life  so  intertwined  and  blended  with  the 
early  history  of  Methodism  in  New  England,  he  enlarged 
it,  and  the  title  was  made  to  conform  to  this  idea.  Bishop 
Hedding,  in  his  life  and  death,  has  left  to  the  Church  of 
Christ  one  of  the  richest  legacies  ;  his  life  was  a  triumph 
of  goodness,  his  death  a  triumph  of  faith.  It  has  been 
said  of  him  that,  as  "a  theologian  and  divine,  his  views 
wTere  comprehensive,  logical,  and  wTell-matured.  Not  only 
had  they  been  elaborated  with  great  care,  but  the  anal- 
ysis was  very  distinct ;  and  the  successive  steps  were  not 
only  clearly  defined  in  the  original  analysis,  but  distinct 
even  in  the  niinutise  of  the  detail."  He  was  mainly  instru- 
mental in  the  establishment  of  Zion's  Herald  at  Boston, 
the  first  journal  published  by  the  Methodist  Church  in  the 
United  States ;  and  no  minister  in  the  Church  labored 
more  zealously  and  efficiently  in  promoting  the  cause  of 
general  and  theological  education  than  he. 

In  the  same  year  (1855),  John  Mason,  book  steward 
of  the  Wesleyan  Methodists  in  London,  published  "The 
Life  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Newton,  D.  D.  By  Rev.  Thomas 
Jackson."  The  story  of  that  long,  laborious,  and  triumph- 
ant course  has  been  so  admirably  told,  that  any  attempt 
to  epitomize  it  would  seem  to  be  presumptuous.  In  1839 
he  visited  America  as  a  delegate  from  the  British  Confer- 
ence, and  his  popularity  was  so  great  that  he  attracted 
vast  crowds  wherever  he  preached.  He  was,  indeed,  one 
of  the  most  eloquent  ministers  of  Methodism,  was  four 
times  president  of  the  British  Conference,  and  during  his 


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109 


labor  of  forty  years  addressed,  from  year  to  year,  a  greater 
number  of  people,  probably,  than  any  other  man  of  his 
time.  The  London  Review  (1856),  in  speaking  of  his 
"Sermons  on  Special  and  Ordinary  Occasions"  (edited  by 
Dr.  Rigg,  1853),  says:  "That  Dr.  Newton  possessed,  with 
other  essential  but  inferior  mental  qualifications,  great 
mental  vigor  we  find  ample  evidence  in  nearly  every  page 
of  this  volume;  and  we  are  at  no  loss  to  comprehend  the 
causes  which  enabled  him,  for  nearly  half  a  century,  to 
gather  around  him,  wherever  he  went,  listening  and  ad- 
miring crowds,  and  which  made  him  the  greatest  preacher 
among  a  body  of  ministers  unequaled  for  the  power  and 
success  of  their  ministry  in  any  period  of  the  Christian 
Church."  "The  Life,  Labors,  and  Travels  of  Rev.  R. 
Newton,  D.  D. ,  by  a  Wesleyan  Minister,"  was  published 
in  the  same  year  (1855). 

In  1856  Carlton  and  Porter  published  "  The  Life  of 
Rev.  John  Clark,  by  Rev.  B.  M.  Hall ;  with  an  Introduc- 
tion by  Bishop  Morris."  The  subject  of  this  biography 
was  at  first  a  poor  apprentice-boy  in  a  tan-yard,  and  after 
his  conversion  was  dismissed  by  his  master  to  become  an 
itinerant  preacher,  which  he  did  by  entering  the  Troy  Con- 
ference. He  subsequently  labored  among  the  Indians  in 
the  Northwest  Territory,  became  a  missionary  in  Texas, 
and  was  the  adviser  of  Mrs.  Garrett  in  founding  and  en- 
dowing the  "Garrett  Biblical  Institute." 

In  1856,  also,  was  published  by  the  New  York  Book 
Concern  the  "  Autobiography  of  Peter  Cartwright,  the 
Backwoods  Preacher,"  edited  by  Rev.  W.  P.  Strickland. 
The  third  London  edition,  from  the  twenty-first  American 
edition,  was  published  by  Heylin  in  1859,  and  reached  its 
seventh  thousand  in  1862.  The  Methodist  Quarterly  Review, 
on  its  appearance,  said  :  "  Peter  Cartwright,  judging  from 
his  many  re-elections  to  the  General  Conference,  from  the 
popular  stories  of  which  he  is  the  hero,  and  from  the  laud- 
atory notices  of  some  of  our  editors,  has  many  admirers. 


110  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 

Such  will  doubtless  buy,  read,  and  admire  his  self-drawn 
picture.  We  are  not,  and  never  have  been,  among  that 
number  of  laudators."  Notices  of  the  work  appeared  in 
the  North  American  Review,  Dickens's  Household  Words  and 
the  London  Athenaeum;  and  Parton,  in  his  "Life  of  Jack- 
son," calls  it  "the  wondrous  autobiography  of  glorious  old 
Peter  Cartwright."  In  1873  the  Methodist  Quarterly  Re- 
view published  two  favorable  articles  on  "  Peter  Cart- 
wright,"  which  were  written  by  M.  Cucheval-Clavigny, 
and  published  in  the  Revue  des  Deux  Mondes  of  Paris.  In 
those  articles  the  French  reviewer  deplored  that  Peter 
Cartwright  had  abandoned  the  early  practice  of  keeping  a 
journal,  and  says:  "  It  would  have  shown  us  the  preacher 
in  his  every-day  life,  brought  us  to  the  scene  of  his  labors, 
his  joys  and  sorrows,  and  would,  at  the  same  time,  have 
presented  a  picture,  taken  on  the  spot,  of  material  and 
moral  life  of  the  West  at  the  opening  of  the  century." 
Of  the  book  itself,  the  writer  adds:  "With  the  intent 
of  moral  edification,  h  is  pen  a  bounds  in  anecdotes.  He 
makes  record  of  obdurate  sinners  suddenly  converted,  of 
wicked  men  stricken  by  the  judgments  of  God,  hypocrites 
unmasked,  heretics  or  atheists  confounded."  When  Peter 
Cartwright's  "  Fifty  Years  a  Presiding  Elder"  appeared  in 
1871,  the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review  had  somewhat  modi- 
fied its  opinion,  saying:  "Whatever  differences  of  view  a 
large  share  of  the  Church  has  entertained,  all  are,  at  the 
present  hour,  unanimous  in  kindly  recollections  of  the 
great  services  rendered  by  Peter  Cartwright  to  Methodism 
and  to  our  country.  Plis  history  and  character,  typical  yet 
unique,  have  impressed  the  public  mind,  without  as  within 
our  pale,  in  Europe  as  well  as  in  America.  Even  the 
most  eminent  review  of  Paris  some  years  since  gave  a  full 
article  upon  his  history,  as  a  phenomenon  worth  the  study 
of  the  present  day."  In  the  same  year  the  New  York 
Book  Concern  published  Strickland's  "  Pioneers  of  the 
West." 


BIOGRAPHICAL  LITERATURE. 


Ill 


In  1857  the  Western  Book  Concern  published  four 
books  of  a  biographical  nature:  "Brief  Recollections  of 
Rev.  George  W.  Walker,"  by  Rev.  M.  P.  Gaddisj  "Rec- 
ollections of  a  Superannuate,"  by  Rev.  David  Lewis,  of 
the  Ohio  Conference,  a  book  which  can  scarcely  be  called 
a  biography,  as  eminent  characters  of  Methodism,  such  as 
McKendree,  George,  Mcrwin,  and  Ostrander  figure  in  its 
pages;  "Biography  of  Samuel  Lewis,  First  Superintendent 
of  Common  Schools  for  the  State  of  Ohio,"  by  William  G. 
W.  Lewis — a  noble  memorial  from  a  son  to  the  character 
of  a  great,  a  good,  and  a  heroic  man;  and  the  "Autobi- 
ography of  a  Pioneer,"  by  Rev.  Jacob  Young,  with  an 
Introduction  by  Bishop  Morris. 

In  1858  Carlton  and  Porter  published  "The  Pioneer 
Bishop;  or,  the  Life  and  Times  of  Francis  Asbury,"  by 
Rev.  W.  P.  Strickland.  Bishop  Janes,  who  furnished  a 
"Prefatory  Letter"  to  the  book,  says:  "In  my  early 
acquaintance  with  the  history  of  our  Church  I  was  led 
involuntarily  and  frequently  to  inquire,  Why  has  no  biog- 
raphy of  Bishop  Asbury  been  furnished  to  the  Church? 
I  have  heard  brethren,  both  in  the  ministry  and  in  the 
laity,  express  deep  regret  at  this  omission.  My  time  did 
not  permit  me  to  examine  the  manuscript  of  this  work 
sufficiently  to  justify  me  in  analyzing  and  describing  it; 
but  I  know  that  the  author  has  the  intellectual  and  liter- 
ary ability,  and  I  believe  he  has  the  persevering  industry, 
the  Christian  candor,  and  the  religious  sympathy  to  exe- 
cute the  work  with  fidelity;  and  when  thoroughly  executed 
it  will  place  another  star  of  first  magnitude  and  of  richest 
effulgence  in  the  biographical  galaxy  of  the  Church."  Dr. 
Bangs,  who  wrote  the  Introduction,  in  referring  to  the 
practice  which  obtains  with  some  biographers  of  padding 
their  books  with  accounts  of  great  men  and  other  equally 
irrelevant  and  extraneous  matter,  says:  "If  an  apology 
could  rightfully  be  made  for  this  kind  of  biography  for 
any  public  man,  it  might  be  made  for  Bishop  Asbury,  for 


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certainly  he  stood  up  before  the  community  as  a  giant  in 
intellect,  and  as  a  saint  of  the  first  magnitude,  having 
professed  and  exemplified  the  '  heights  and  depths '  of 
1  perfect  love,'  and  displayed  the  zeal  and  diligence  of  an 
apostle  in  the  work  of  the  Christian  ministry.  Dr.  Strick- 
land, however,  has  not  availed  himself  of  this  privilege, 
but  has  confined  himself  strictly  to  the  life  and  labors  of 
Bishop  Asbury,  calling  him,  very  appropriately,  the  '  pio- 
neer bishop.'"  Dr.  Whedon  said  of  the  execution  of  the 
work  :  "It  had  seemed  a  fatality  for  any  one  to  undertake 
the  task  of  portraying  our  founder  bishop  for  history.  Dr. 
Strickland  has  conquered  the  fatality,  whether  of  death  or 
failure,  and  he  has  with  great  industry  and  ability  col- 
lected the  scattered  material,  traced  the  mighty  labors  and 
triumphs  of  the  hero,  and  delineated  the  lineaments  of  the 
man  with  a  true  and  life-like  pencil."  The  American  Tlie- 
ological  Review  described  it  as  an  "  interesting  volume." 
The  ' 1  Journals  of  the  Rev.  Francis  Asbury"  (3  vols.,  8vo), 
appeared  first  in  the  Armiman  Magazine  in  1789,  and  one 
volume  was  published  during  his  life-time.  The  remainder 
were  not  published  until  1821,  five  years  after  his  death, 
when  the  whole  were  issued  by  Bangs  and  Mason,  then 
Agents  of  the  Book  Concern.  But  the  edition  was  imper- 
fect, and  they  were  republished  in  1854,  with  corrections. 
Until  then,  although  Bishop  Asbury  had  been  dead  thirty- 
seven  years,  a  full  memoir  of  his  life  had  not  been  written. 
"Asbury  and  his  Co-laborers,"  by  Prof.  W.  C.  Larrabee 
(2  vols.),  was  published  in  1853,  and  the  Rev.F.W.  Brig 
about  the  same  time  that  Strickland  issued  his  work,  pub- 
lished in  England  "  A  Study  of  Bishop  Asbury."  The  Re- 
vue des  Deux  Mondes  (Paris)  calls  Asbury  "  the  real  founder 
of  American  Methodism,  and  says:  "Asbury,  Lee,  McKen- 
drce,  by  their  truly  evangelical  works,  by  their  perseverance 
through  every  trial,  by  their  poverty  and  their  sufferings, 
must  have  appeared  to  their  contemporaries  worthy  suc- 
cessors of  the  apostles.    In  fact,  it  was  impossible  to  carry 


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to  greater  lengths  the  renouncement  of  self,  and  to  devote 
themselves  more  completely  to  the  salvation  of  their  fellow- 
men."  Of  Asbuiy,  McClintock  and  Strong's  Cyclopaedia 
says:  "In  diligent  activity,  no  apostle,  no  missionary, 
no  warrior  ever  surpassed  him.  He  rivaled  Melancthon 
and  Luther  in  boldness.  He  combined  the  enthusiasm  of 
Xavier  with  the  far-reaching  foresight  and  keen  discrimin- 
ation of  Wesley." 

In  1859  Derby  and  Jackson,  New  York,  published  "Ten 
Years  of  a  Preacher's  Life :  Chapters  from  an  Autobiogra- 
phy," by  Kev.  W.  H.  Milburn,  known  as  "the  blind 
preacher."  Mr.  Milburn  had  published  two  years  pre- 
viously his  "  Rifle,  Axe,  and  Saddle-bags,"  and  in  1860  his 
"  Pioneers,  Ministers  and  People,  of  the  Mississippi  Val- 
ley." Mr.  Milburn  became  a  Methodist  itinerant  at  the 
age  of  twenty,  and  his  early  ministry  was  spent  chiefly 
in  the  Southern  States.  He  became  a  popular  and  elo- 
quent lecturer  and  chaplain  to  Congress,  was  subsequently 
ordained  in  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  but  returned 
in  1872  to  Methodism. 

In  1859  also  appeared  the  "Life  of  Jabez  Bunting, 
D.  D. ,  with  Notices  of  Contemporary  Persons  and  Events, 
by  his  son,  Thomas  Percival  Bunting."  The  American 
edition  was  issued  by  the  Plarpers.  The  author  says  that 
his  father,  while  in  active  service,  felt  a  deep  repugnance 
to  having  his  biography  written,  but  as  old  age  crept  on, 
other  thoughts  took  possession  of  his  mind.  In  his  will, 
dated  in  1852,  he  desired  his  two  elder  sons  to  examine  his 
papers  and  destroy  such  portions  as  it  might  be  expedient 
to  dispose  of,  and  he  left  his  executors  to  exercise  their 
discretion  as  to  what  use  should  be  made  of  the  remainder. 
The  result  was  this  book,  the  record  of  a  man  who,  since 
the  death  of  Wesley,  has  been  more  felt  in  the  economy 
of  British  Methodism  than  any  other.  "  He  became," 
says  Stevens,  "  the  recognized  leader  of  the  Connection. 
Its  most  important  measures  were  either  conceived  or 
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chiefly  effected  by  his  unrivaled  ability  and  influence." 
Dr.  Leifchild,  an  eminent  divine  of  another  communion, 
said  at  his  grave,  that  "in  the  extent  of  his  information, 
the  comprehensiveness  of  his  views,  the  conclusiveness  of 
his  reasoning,  and  the  urbanity  of  his  manners,  I  never 
saw  his  equal  and  never  expect  to." 

In  1860  at  least  four  Methodist  biographies  were  pub- 
lished— two  of  American,  one  of  English,  and  one  of  Irish 
Methodism.  Dr.  W.  P.  Strickland  was  the  author  of 
"The  Life  of  Jacob  Gruber,"  a  man  whom  the  North 
American  Review  characterized  as  "a  devoted,  laborious, 
and  successful  minister,  possessing  much  influence  with  the 
ministry  and  the  laity.  His  wit  was  of  a  satirical  charac- 
ter, and  not  particularly  palatable  to  the  objects  of  it." 
Wakeley  puts  him  among  the  "Heroes  of  Methodism," 
and  he  was  alike  remarkable  for  "strength  and  originality 
of  mind,  energy  of  character,  depth  of  piety,  prodigious 
labors,  power  of  endurance,  extensive  usefulness,  and  sim- 
plicity and  regularity  of  life."  The  other  book,  edited  by 
Strickland,  was  "  The  Autobiography  of  Dan  Young,  a 
New  England  Preacher  of  the  Olden  Time,"  who  entered 
the  itinerant  ministry  in  1805,  traveled  a  few  years,  then 
removed  to  the  West,  where  he  subsequently  entered  upon 
a  legislative  career  in  Ohio.  The  London  biography  of 
1860  was  "  The  Life  of  the  Rev.  John  Hunt,  Missionary 
to  the  Cannibals  of  Fiji,"  by  G.  Stringer  Howe.  Mr. 
Hunt  was  one  of  the  early  missionaries  to  the  Fiji  Islands, 
and  translated  the  New  and  parts  of  the  Old  Testament 
into  their  language.  The  book  is  worthy  of  the  subject, 
and  tends  to  deepen  the  favorable  impressions  of  the  piety 
and  intellectual  gifts  of  a  man  who  was  largely  instru- 
mental in  the  moral  revolution  of  Fiji  from  a  state  of  can- 
nibalism to  a  state  of  Christianity.  The  Irish  book  of 
contemporaneous  publication  is  the  "Life  and  Labors  of 
Rev.  Fossey  Tackaberry,  with  Notices  of  Methodism  in 
Ireland,"  by  Rev.  Robert  Huston.    For  piety  and  zeal,  for 


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vigor  of  mind  and  loftiness  of  purpose,  the  subject  of  this 
memoir  was  a  mau  of  whom  Irish  Methodism  may  well  be 
proud. 

In  1861  Robert  Carter  and  Brothers  published  "  Annals 
of  the  American  Methodist  Pulpit;  or,  Commemorative 
Notices  of  Distinguished  Clergymen  of  the  Methodist  De- 
nomination in  the  United  States,  from  its  Commencement 
to  the  Close  of  1865.  With  an  Historical  Introduction. 
By  William  B.  Sprague,  D.  D."  (8vo.  Pp.  848.)  The 
North  American  Review,  in  reviewing  this  book,  said:  "That 
compiling  the  annals  of  the  American  pulpit  was  a  work 
eminently  proper  to  be  done,  none  will  deny.  That  no 
fitter  man  than  Dr.  Sprague  could  have  been  selected  for 
its  performance,  will  be  scarcely  less  than  unanimously 
conceded.  The  volume  whose  title  is  given  above  is  the 
seventh  in  his  series."  The  Methodist  Quarterly  Revieiv 
said:  4  4  The  best  critics  in  Methodist  history  pronounce 
the  work  remarkably  accurate,  approving  the  faithfulness 
of  Dr.  Sprague  in  the  performance  of  his  arduous  work." 

The  "  Life  and  Times  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Nathan  Bangs," 
by  Rev.  Abel  Stevens,  LL.  D.,  bears  date  1863,  and  in 
1864  the  American  Literary  Gazette  said  that  "  the  author 
has  performed  his  labor  faithfully  and  zealously."  No 
name  was  more  fully  identified  with  American  Methodism 
for  the  sixty  years  of  his  ministerial  life  than  that  of 
Nathan  Bangs.  There  was  no  department  of  labor  in 
which  he  did  not  serve;  and  in  them  all,  as  missionary, 
preacher,  editor,  and  author,  his  devotion,  diligence,  and 
success  were  alike  conspicuous.  His  biography  is,  to  a 
large  extent,  the  history  of  the  Church,  and  his  unspotted 
life,  his  simplicity  of  character,  and  his  earnest  devotion 
to  goodness  and  truth,  gained  him  the  love  and  esteem  of 
all  denominations. 

In  1866  the  New  York  Book  Concern  published 
"  Reminiscences,  Historical  and  Biographical,  of  Sixty- 
four  Years  in  the  Ministry.     By  Rev.  Henry  Boehm, 


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Bishop  Asbury's  Traveling  Companion,  and  Executor  of 
Lis  Last  Will  and  Testament.  Edited  by  Rev.  Joseph  B. 
Wakeley."  The  author  tells  us  that,  in  1847,  the  New 
Jersey  Conference  appointed  a  committee  to  confer  with 
him  in  respect  to  his  journals  and  other  papers,  and  aid 
in  preparing  them  for  publication.  But  the  committee  was 
too  widely  separated  for  any  effectual  result,  and  Dr. 
Wakeley  and  he,  at  intervals  during  a  space  of  twelve 
years,  revised  his  manuscript  journal  of  two  thousand 
pages,  and  produced  this  book.  In  1876  Dr.  Wakeley 
published  a  revised  edition  of  the  work  entitled,  "The 
Patriarch  of  One  Hundred  Years:  Being  Reminiscenes, 
Historical  and  Biographical,  of  Rev.  Henry  Boehm." 

In  1866  appeared,  from  the  New  York  and  Cincinnati 
Book  Concerns,  the  "Life  and  Letters  of  Leonidas  L. 
Hamline,  D.  D. ,  one  of  the  Bishops  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  By  Walter  C.  Palmer,  M.  D.  With 
Introductory  Letters  by  Bishops  Morris,  Janes,  and  Thom- 
son." In  1869  the  Rev.  F.  G.  Hibbard,  D.  D.,  edited  the 
-works  of  Bishop  Hamline,  the  first  volume  of  which  was  - 
published  at  that  time ;  but  the  second  volume  did  not 
appear  until  1871.  Dr.  Hibbard  also  wrote  the  biogra- 
phy of  Bishop  Hamline.  Of  him  Henry  Clay,  himself  a 
prince  of  orators,  said:  "I  have  never  seen  such  dignity 
in  human  form  before."  This  is  the  testimony  of  one  fully 
capable  of  judging,  and  who  was  intimately  associated 
with  him,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Elliott:  "As  preacher  he  was 
in  the  first  rank  in  all  respects  that  regard  the  finished 
pulpit  orator.  His  style  as  a  writer  would  compare  favor- 
ably with  the  best  writers  in  the  English  language.  He 
had  no  superior  for  logic,  argument,  or  oratory."  Dr. 
Kidder,  in  reviewing  the  biographies  of  Palmer  and  Hib- 
bard (January,  1881),  says:  "The  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  has  always  manifested  a  commendable  interest  in 
properly  written  memoirs  of  her  deceased  bishops.  But, 
unfortunately,  in  several  instances  there  has  been  either  a 


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lack  of  data  attainable  for  the  production  of  such  memoirs, 
or  a  lack  of  interest  or  industry  in  preparing  them.  Bishop 
Hamline  has  had  two  excellent  biographers,  while  of  eight 
others  of  our  deceased  bishops  no  adequate  memoirs  have 
as  yet  been  published."  Bishop  Hamline  was  one  of  the 
agents  in  the  conversion  of  Dr.  Nast,  the  apostle  of  Ger- 
man Methodism,  and  was  in  deep  sympathy  with  the  work 
of  Methodism  among  the  Germans  in  this  country,  ren- 
dering it  great  service.  Dr.  Nast  says:  "I  have  often 
tried  to  express  my  gratitude  for  what,  under  God,  we 
Germans  owe  to  that  great  man  of  God,  Bishop  Hamline." 
The  Church  Review,  an  organ  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  pronounces  Hamline  to  be  "  the  most  extraordi- 
nary man  for  exquisite  culture,  manly  grace,  impassioned 
eloqueuce,  and  saintly  piety  that  Methodism  has  produced 
on  this  continent,  and  who,  in  grasp  and  brilliance  of 
genius,  has  had  scarcely  a  superior  in  America."  In  1869 
also  appeared  "The  Bold  Frontier  Preacher.  A  Portrait- 
ure of  Rev.  William  Cravens,  of  Virginia.  By  Rev.  J.  B. 
Wakeley."  The  subject  of  these  sketches  was  a  bold 
-  preacher  in  Virginia  against  slavery  and  intemperance. 
On  his  removal  to  Indiana  he  entered  the  traveling  con- 
nection, and  did  effective  work  on  the  frontier  settlements. 

In  1871  Hitchcock  and  Walden  published  the  "  Life 
and  Times  of  Rev.  Thomas  M.  Hudson,"  written  by  him- 
self. Rev.  C.  A.  Holmes,  D.  D.,  who  furnishes  the  intro- 
duction to  the  book,  says:  "  For  fifty  years  he  has  been  a 
minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  From  the 
organization  of  the  Pittsburg  Conference,  in  1825,  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  conference  ;  and  none  will  question 
that  its  present  high  position  is  as  much  due  to  him  as  to 
any  one  man.  None  has  done  harder  work,  been  more 
abundant  in  labors,  been  wiser  to  plan,  or  gathered  higher 
honors."    The  book  is  interesting  and  valuable. 

In  1872  appeared  the  first  volume  of  "The  Western 
Pioneer ;  or,  Incidents  in  the  Life  and  Times  of  Alfred 


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Brunson."  The  second  volume  was  published  in  1880.  Dr. 
Brunson  preached,  during  the  period  of  seventy  years  cov- 
ered by  the  book,  about  ten  thousand  times,  and  was  in- 
strumental in  the  conversion  of  about  six  thousand  souls 
and  the  erection  of  forty  churches.  The  book  is  specially 
valuable  as  a  picture  of  the  past  times  in  the  progress  of 
Methodism  and  of  our  country,  as  furnishing  testimony  in 
regard  to  some  important  characters  and  events,  and  as 
the  record  of  the  services  of  an  able  and  faithful  pioneer 
in  our  aggressive  movements. 

In  1872  also  was  published  "  Incidents  and  Anecdotes 
of  the  Rev.  Edward  T.  Taylor,  for  over  Forty  Years  Pas- 
tor of  the  Seamen's  Bethel,  Boston.  By  Rev.  Gilbert 
Haven,  editor  of  Zion's  Herald."  This  book,  besides  the 
graphic  delineations  of  its  author,  embodies  vivid  descrip- 
tions of  Father  Taylor  by  Miss  Harriet  Martineau,  Miss 
Hosmer,  Charles  Dickens,  John  Ross  Dix,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Bellows,  and  the  Rev.  James  Freeman  Clarke,  the  latter 
of  whom  remarks  of  him,  "He  was  a  genuine  Methodist, 
and  no  one  wished  him  to  be  any  thing  else."  Tie  Rev. 
Dr.  Whedon,  that  prince  of  book  reviewers,  says  of  this 
biography:  "Our  American  Methodism  is  not  poor  in  bi- 
ography. It  is  rich,  and  will  be  richer,  in  a  great  variety 
of  character.  Men  of  statesmenlike  capacity,  like  Asbury 
and  Hedding  ;  men  of  rare  eloquence,  like  Summerfield 
and  Bascom  ;  men  of  rich  accomplishments,  like  Fisk  and 
McClintock, — have  lived  memorable  lives,  commemorated 
by  competent  hands.  But  no  biography,  in  our  whole 
catalogue  of  England  or  America,  after  Wesley  and 
Fletcher,  is  more  abounding  in  matter  to  touch  both  intel- 
lect and  heart  than  Father  Taylor  portrayed  by  Gilbert 
Haven." 

In  1873  there  was  issued  from  the  Wesleyan  Confer- 
ence office,  London,  "  Recollections  of  My  Own  Life  and 
Times.  By  Thomas  Jackson.  Edited  by  the  Rev.  B. 
Frankland,  B.  A.    With  an  Introduction  by  G.  Osborn, 


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D.  D."  Mr.  Jacksou  was  twice  elected  president  of  the 
British  Conference,  was  nineteen  years  connectional  editor 
and  nineteen  theological  tutor.  The  London  Quarterly 
Review  says  that  to  him  alone  must  be  attributed  the  im- 
petus among  the  Wesleyans  which  so  much  elevated  their 
.Sunday-school  instruction,  and  threw  a  hedge  of  a  more 
direct  ministerial  oversight  around  multitudes  of  their 
youth. 

Harper  and  Brothers  printed  in  the  same  year  "  The 
Life  of  the  Rev.  Alfred  Cook  man.  With  Some  Account 
of  his  Father,  the  Rev.  George  G.  Cookman.  By  Henry 
B.  Ridgaway,  D.  D.  With  an  Introduction  by  Bishop 
Foster."  He  was  a  man  of  unusual  pulpit  power,  and 
"  among  the  names  which  the  Church,  with  humble,  grate- 
ful joy,  inscribes  upon  her  tablets  as  examples  of  the  puri- 
fying, elevating  power  of  divine  grace,  there  is  a  place  for 
the  name  of  Alfred  Cookman."  His  father  was  an  emi- 
nent pulpit  orator  and  a  preacher  of  great  ability  and 
success.  In  1838-39  he  was  chaplain  to  the  American 
Congress,  and  the  "  hall  of  representatives  at  Washington 
never  echoed  more  eloquent  tones  than  during  his  chap- 
laincy to  Congress." 

In  1874  was  published  in  New  York  '  'The  Life  and 
Times  of  George  Peck,  D.  D.  Written  by  Himself."  This 
is  the  book  of  a  distinguished  minister,  editor  for  four 
years  of  the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review,  arid  for  the  same 
length  of  time  editor  of  TJie  Christian  Advocate.  One  of 
his  contemporaries,  quoted  by  McClintock  and  Strong, 
wrote  concerning  him:  "I  view  him  as  one  of  the  most 
remarkable  men  of  our  times — one  whose  genius  and  piety 
are  indelibly  stamped  on  the  ecclesiastical  polity  and  won- 
derful growth  of  the  Church — whose  wise  counsels  and 
Herculean  labors  are  interwoven  in  its  development.  For 
the  past  fifty  years  of  his  whole  life  he  has  been  distin- 
guished by  a  devoted  love  to  the  Church  and  unswerving 
loyalty  to  honest  convictions  of  truth." 


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"  A  Life-story  of  Rev.  D.  W.  Clark,  D.  D.,  Bishop  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Compiled  from  Original 
Sources.  By  Rev.  D.  Curry,  D.  D.,"  was  published  also 
in  1874.  Bishop  E.  O.  Haven  said  of  the  fitness  of  the 
biographer  for  the  work  :  "Of  nearly  all  the  great  enter- 
prises in  which  Bishop  Clark  participated  as  leader  or  asso- 
ciate, Dr.  Curry  could  say,  'Magna  parsfui;'  and  while 
generally  he  was  so  fully  in  accord  with  him  as  now  in 
receiving  them,  so  as  to  give  the  work  much  of  the  fresh- 
ness of  an  autobiography,  he  is  at  the  same  time  so  indi- 
vidualistic as  not  to  be  in  danger  of  laying  aside  the  crit- 
icism and  analysis  of  a  genuine  biographer." 

"  The  Life  of  the  Rev.  James  Dixon,  D.  D.,  by  his 
Son,  Rev.  R.  W.  Dixon,"  appeared  also  in  1874.  Dr. 
Dixon  was  president  of  the  British  Conference  in  1841, 
and  in  1848  he  visited  America  as  the  representative  of 
the  Wesleyan  Methodist  Church.  "His  ministry  was 
practical,  tender,  and  searching  ;  his  eloquence  sententious, 
racy,  and  epigrammatic,  full  of  originality,  and  never 
failing  to  enchain  his  hearers." 

In  1874  also  appeared  the  "  Memoir  of  the  late  Rev. 
Benj.  G.  Paddock,  with  Brief  Notices  of  his  Early  Minis- 
terial Associates,"  by  his  brother,  the  Rev.  Z.  Paddock, 
D.  D.  Besides  the.  biography  proper,  the  book  contains 
an  appendix,  with  extended  sketches  of  George  Gary, 
Abner  Chase,  Seth  Mattison,  Isaac  Puffer,  Charles  Giles, 
and  others.  The  book  is  called  a  Memoir,  but  it  is  rather 
the  Life  and  Times  of  its  subject,  who  was  one  of  the  pio- 
neer Methodist  preachers  of  Western  New  York. 

In  1875  appeared  "  The  Wesleyan  Demosthenes.  Com- 
prising Select  Sermons  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Beaumont. 
With  a  Sketch  of  his  Character,  by  Rev.  J.  B.  Wakeley." 
The  sermons  and  record  of  a  natural  orator,  which  carried 
all  before  them  in  their  delivery,  the  discourses  being 
"characterized  by  brilliancy,  earnestness,  and  impetuosity." 

In  1875  also  appeared  the  "Life  of  Rev.  Thomas  A. 


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Morris,  D.  D.,  late  Senior  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  By  Rev.  J.  F.  Marlay,  D.  D.  With  an 
Introduction  by  Bishop  Janes."  His  biographer  says  it 
was  the  wish  of  Bishop  Morris  that  the  story  of  his  life 
should  be  written  by  his  friend  and  colleague,  the  late 
lamented  Bishop  Clark,  who  not  only  consented  to  under- 
take  the  work,  but  had  made  considerable  progress  in 
gathering  material  for  it,  when  failing  health,  together 
with  the  incessant  and  exacting  duties  of  the  episcopal 
office,  compelled  him  to  relinquish  the  engagement.  "  At 
his  request,  and  under  his  appointment  as  literary  executor 
of  Bishop  Morris,  I  have  endeavored  to  carry  out  his  orig- 
inal plan  of  the  work  as  nearly  as  possible."  Dr.  Went- 
worth  says  the  biographer  "has  done  his  work  well,  and 
the  thanks  of  all  good  men  are  due  to  him  for  this  edi- 
fying contribution  to  the  ever-swelling  volume  of  Christian 
biographical  literature."  As  one  of  the  last  in  the  long 
line  of  Methodistic  heroes,  and  as,  perhaps,  the  very  last  of 
the  pioneer  bishops,  Thomas  A.  Morris  must  ever  hold  a 
high  place  among  the  leading  men  of  the  Church.  It  has 
been  said  of  him  :  "  To  the  charming  simplicity,  both  of 
taste  and  manners,  which  eminently  characterized  him  in 
all  the.  walks  of  life,  he  added  the  graces  of  a  genuine 
nature  and  beautiful  Christian  character.  As  a  preacher 
he  was  chaste,  sincere,  and  many  times  greatly  eloquent. 
As  a  bishop,  he  was  considerate,  careful,  and  judicious, 
never  forgetful  of  the  most  humble  of  his  brethren  in  the 
administration  of  his  high  office." 

In  1876  the  New  York  Book  Concern  published  the 
"Life  and  Letters  of  the  Rev.  John  McClintock,  D.  D., 
late  President  of  Drew  Theological  Seminary,"  by  George 
R.  Crooks,  D.  D.  This  book  has  been  called  a  labor  of 
love  and  a  tribute  of  reverence  to  a  noble  character. 
"The  task  was,"  says  Dr.  Whedon,  "  no  doubt,  easy,  from 
the  freshness  of  the  writer's  recollections,  from  the  contri- 
butions of  McClintock's  friends,  such  as  Longacre,  Biglow, 


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and  Mrs.  Eobinson,  and  from  the  habits  of  copious  jour- 
nalizing and  epistolizing."  Dr.  McClintock  was  a  profound 
scholar,  a  successful  author,  an  influential  patriot,  and  a 
preacher  who  swayed  the  minds  of  his  hearers  by  his  fer- 
vid eloquence,  and  satisfied  the  understanding  by  the 
clearness  and  scientific  precision  with  which  he  arranged 
and  set  forth  the  stores  of  his  varied  learning. 

In  1877  was  published  by  W.  C.  Palmer,  Jr.,  "The 
Life  and  Letters  of  Mrs.  Phoebe  Palmer,  by  Rev.  Richard 
Wheatley."  This  is  the  record  of  an  active  and  fruitful 
life.  The  materials  have  been  so  arranged  by  the  author 
as  to  present  what  he  calls  "an  accurate  portrait  of  Mrs. 
Palmer's  inner  life."  Quite  a  different  work  is  another, 
issued  in  that  year  by  Nelson  and  Phillips,  entitled,  "  Scenes 
in  my  Life,  Occurring  during  a  Ministry  of  nearly  Half  a 
Century  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  by  Rev.  Mark 
Trafton,  D.  D."  An  entertaining  glance  at  the  Methodist 
itinerancy  of  the  last  fifty  years.  In  that  year,  also,  was 
published  by  the  Southern  Methodist  Publishing  House 
the  "  Life  and  Papers  of  A.  L.  P.  Green,  D.  D.,"  by  Rev. 
William  M.  Green,  and  edited  by  T.  O.  Summers,  D.  D., 
a  very  interesting  book. 

In  1879  appeared  the  "Life  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  M. 
Eddy,  D.  D.,"  by  Rev.  Charles  N.  Sims,  D.  D.,  with  an 
Introduction  by  Bishop  Simpson.  This  is  a  deeply  inter- 
esting and  edifying  narrative,  and  presents  the  character 
of  Dr.  Eddy  in  its  most  engaging  and  impressive  traits. 
Zions  Herald  calls  it  "  the  picture  of  a  truly  manly  man, 
an  earnest  Christian,  an  eloquent  pulpit  orator,  and  a 
faithful  and  eminently  successful  minister  of  the  Gospel." 
The  National  Repository  says:  "Dr.  Eddy  was  a  man  of 
the  present  time,  a  real,  living  character,  in  fullest  sympa- 
thy with  his  age  and  environments;  active,  earnest,  and 
of  sufficient  abilities  to  make  his  career  in  life  worthy  to 
be  recorded  and  studied.  The  author  has  honored  him- 
self in  honoring  his  departed  friend." 


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In  1880  appeared  "  Memorials  of  Gilbert  Haven,  one 
of  the  Bishops  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,"  edited 
by  W.  H.  Daniels,  with  an  Introduction  by  Rev.  B.  K. 
Peirce,  D.  D. ;  and  "Gilbert  Haven:  A  Monograph,"  by 
Rev.  E.  Wentworth,  D.  D.  The  latter  is  a  12mo.,  of 
forty-two  pages,  an  address  delivered  before  the  Troy  Con- 
ference in  1880,  and  published  by  request  of  that  body. 
"The  '  Monograph '  is,  perhaps,"  says  the  Methodist  Quar- 
terly Review,  * 1  the  best  of  the  many  tributes  that  have 
been  paid  to  the  memory  of  our  deceased  bishop.  No 
departed  personage  of  our  Church  ever  received  so  unan- 
imous and  loud  a  volume  of  eulogy  and  elegy  at  his  de- 
cease." Of  him  it  has  been  said  that  none  of  the  men 
who  have  been  identified  with  American  Methodism  com- 
bined in  themselves  greater  powers,  nobler  sentiments, 
better  purposes,  wider  judgments,  or  greater  efficiency  than 
Gilbert  Haven.  "  The  friend  of  the  black  man,  the  lover 
of  his  country,  the  devotee  of  his  God  and  the  Church, 
the  advocate  of  all  that  is  good  and  true  and  beautiful, 
he  died  too  soon  for  the  happiness  of  his  fellows  and  the 
prosperity  of  the  Church  militant." 

In  1882  appeared  "The  Life  of  the  Rev.  Edmund  S. 
Janes,  D.  D. ,  late  Senior  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,"  by  Rev.  H.  B.  Ridgaway,  D.  D.  The 
author  closes  his  book  by  saying:  "It  is  yet  too  early  in 
history  to  assign  the  comparative  place  of  our  bishop 
among  his  contemporaries,  or  among  the  holy  worthies  of 
the  past.  Nor  is  it  important  to  do  so.  His  position  is 
somewhat  unique.  No  man  certainly  since  Asbury  has 
made  a  stronger  or  more  distinctive  impress  upon  Amer- 
ican Methodism ;  his  wise  sayings,  holy  example,  heroic 
services,  sweet  charity,  and  self-denying  piety,  will  be 
honored  by  generations  to  come." 

Besides  these,  a  great  many  memoirs,  biographies,  and 
autobiographies  of  the  early  preachers  and  others  have 
been  written,  some  of  which  gained  only  a  limited  local 


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circulation  and  others  Lave  passed  entirely  out  of  print. 
Among  others  are  :  "  The  Life  of  Kev.  Benjamin  Abbott," 
by  John  Ffirth,  the  record  of  an  extraordinary  man  (1809)  ; 
"The  Methodist  Memorial,"  by  Charles  Atmore  (1813); 
"Memorials  of  the  Rev.  John  Henley,"  by  John  G.  Avery" 
(1844) ;  "  Recollections  of  an  Old  Itinerant,"  by  Rev. 
Henry  Smith  (1848);  "Memoirs  of  Joseph  Entwisle," 
by  his  son  Rev.  J.  Entwisle,  a  truly  edifying  memoir 
(1848);  "Memoir  of  Rev.  S.  B.  Bangs,"  by  Magruder 
(1853);  "Footprints  of  an  Itinerant,"  by  Rev.  Maxwell 
P.  Gaddis  (1855);  "Life  of  the  Rev.  Valentine  Cook," 
by  Rev.  E.  Stevenson,  D.  D.  (1856);  "Memoir  of  Rev. 
Wm.  Gurley,"  by  Rev.  L.  B.  Gurley  (1861)  ;  "  Mother  of 
the  Wesleys,"  by  Rev.  John  Kirk  (1865);  "The  Boy 
Preacher ;  or,  the  Life  and  Labors  of  Rev.  Thomas  Harri- 
son," by  Rev.  E.  Davies  (1881)  ;  "  Life  of  Bishop  Roberts," 
by  Rev.  C.  Elliott ;  "Biography  of  Rev.  W.  G.  Caples,"  by 
Bishop  E.  M.  Marvin;  "Life  of  Bishop  Capers,"  by  Rev. 
W.  M.  Wightmau,  D.  D.;  "Fifty  Years  a  Presiding 
Elder,"  by  Rev.  W.  S.  Hooper ;  "The  Man  of  One  Book," 
a  Life  of  Rev.  Wm.  Marsh,  of  Maine,  by  his  daughter; 
"Memoir  of  Rev.  Isaac  Smith,"  in  1822  missionary  to 
the  Cherokee  Indians;  Osburn's  "  H.  C.  Wooster;"  Dr. 
Frazer's  "Rev.  John  Lindsay;"  Dr.  Hibbard's  "Abner 
Chase;"  Vail's  "Zenas  Caldwell;"  E.  W.  Sehon's  "Sam- 
uel A.  Latta,  M.  D.;"  Rev.  John  Lancaster's  "Lady  Max- 
well ;"  "Memoir  of  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Mason,"  with  Introduction 
by  Bishop  Janes;  "Life  of  Hester  Ann  Rogers,"  of  which 
many  thousands  have  been  sold;  "Memoir  of  Richard 
Williams;"  and  autobiographies  of  Thomas  Rankin,  George 
Shadfbrd,  Thomas  Ware,  Martin  Ruter,  and  Billy  Hib- 
bard,  the  last  an  eccentric,  but  successful,  early  New 
England  preacher. 

w.  B.  WATKINS. 


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IX. 

HISTORICAL  LITERATURE  OF  METH- 
ODISM. 

The  historical  literature  relating  to  Methodism  in 
Europe  and  America  is,  considering  the  comparatively 
brief  period  since  it  had  its  origin,  remarkably  copious 
and  of  a  remarkably  varied  character.  This  results  from 
several  causes. 

1.  The  religious  movement  known  as  Methodism  has, 
from  the  beginning,  been  one  of  great  activity  and  intense 
earnestness.  It  has  set  in  motion  agencies  that  have  had 
great  influence  throughout  large  portions  of  Christendom, 
and  in  many  countries  of  the  heathen  world.  The  devel- 
opment and  operation  of  these  agencies  have  been,  as  was 
natural,  reported  and  chronicled  in  various  publications 
and  to  an  extent  which  has  greatly  enriched  the  historical 
literature  of  Methodism.  The  deeds  of  heroic  toil  and 
patience  have  awakened  admiration,  and  inspired  the  pens 
of  ready  writers  to  record  them. 

2.  The  evangelistic  work  of  the  Wesleys  and  of  the 
preachers  whom  they  employed  and  directed  was  from  the 
beginning  a  startling  innovation  upon  the  methods  and 
usages  of  the  established  Churches  in  England,  Ireland, 
and  Scotland,  and  of  the  dissenting  denominations  as  well; 
and,  as  a  consequence,  they  excited  prejudices  and  oppo- 
sition of  the  most  determined  and  often  of  the  most  vio- 
lent character.  The  new  tf  sect"  was  everywhere  spoken 
against,  and,  for  a  long  time,  everywhere  persecuted. 
From  a  very  early  day  in  the  movement  the  press  began 


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to  teem  with  publications  of  various  kinds,  having  for 
their  object  to  impede  or  to  destroy  the  work  carried  on  by 
the  Wesleys  and  their  coadjutors.  The  system  of  warfare 
thus  inaugurated  was  kept  up,  with  more  or  less  perti- 
nacity, against  nearly  every  feature  of  Methodism,  whether 
of  government,  doctrine,  or  usage,  down  to  the  middle  of 
the  present  century.  H.  C.  DeCanver,  in  1846,  priuted 
a  catalogue  comprising  a  list  of  two  hundred  and  seventy- 
seven  such  books,  most  of  which  have  already  been  for- 
gotten, and  are  wholly  useless  except  to  the  mere  anti- 
quarian. As  the  publications  in  refutation  of  Methodism 
involved,  to  a  greater  or  less  extent,  the  history  of  Meth- 
odism, the  replies  to  them,  when  replies  were  deemed 
necessary,  partook  of  the  same  character.  It  is  to  this 
cause  is  due  that  very  considerable  portions  of  Methodist 
literature  are  of  a  historico-polemic  cast. 

3.  It  has  been  the  misfortune  of  Methodism,  up  to 
within  a  recent  date,  to  suffer  from  divisions  and  seces- 
sions in  consequence  of  difference  of  opinion  among  its 
ministers  and  lay  members  upon  questions  of  government 
and  policy,  or,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Canadian  separation, 
in  consequence  of  considerations  of  expediency.  The  re- 
sult of  these  divisions  has  been  the  formation  of  a  very 
considerable  number  of  organizations  almost  identical  in 
doctrine  and  usage,  and  differing  principally  in  govern- 
ment. Each  of  these  bodies  has  its  history,  both  of  the 
causes  which  led  to  its  organization  and  of  its  establish- 
ment and  growth. 

4.  Methodism  has  not  only  had  a  large  development  in 
those  countries  in  which  it  had  its  origin  or  an  early  plant- 
ing, but,  through  emigration  and  the  indefatigable  labors 
of  its  missionaries,  it  has  taken  deep  root  and  produced 
very  important  results  in  many  other  lands,  as  in  France, 
Germany,  Italy,  Switzerland,  India,  China,  Australia,  Ja- 
pan, New  Zealand,  Mexico,  and  South  America.  One  of 
the  most  important,  as  it  is  one  of  the  most  interesting, 


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departments  of  our  historical  literature,  and  one  which  ere- 
long will  be  exceedingly  prolific  of  publications,  is  that 
which  will  comprise  the  records  of  these  aggressive  move- 
ments in  the  most  distant,  and,  not  long  since,  the  darkest 
portions  of  the  earth,  but  now,  thanks  be  to  God,  fast 
being  irradiated  with  the  light  of  the  best  Christian  civil- 
ization. 

5.  The  periodical  literature  of  Methodism,  begun  at  an 
early  day,  and  fostered  with  sedulous  care,  chiefly  as  a 
means  of  defense  and  as  a  helpful  advocate  of  its  institu- 
tions and  enterprises,  has  naturally  become  the  chronicler 
of  its  doings,  its  plans,  and  its  purposes,  as  well  as  the  ad- 
vocate and  the  helper  of  its  growing  undertakings.  In 
this  way  it  has  done  much  to  create  as  well  as  to  record 
history. 

6.  The  last,  but  not  the  least,  of  the  sources  of  Meth- 
odist historical  literature  to  which  we  will  refer  is  the  jour- 
nals kept  by  Methodist  official  bodies  of  their  own  doings, 
and  the  journals  kept  by  ministers  who  have  occupied 
prominent  positions  in  their  respective  organizations,  and 
have  recorded  their  experiences  and  observations.  In  a 
large  degree  these  journals  have  been  among  the  richest 
of  the  sources  from  which  the  historical  writers  of  Meth- 
odism have  gathered  their  most  entertaining  and  most  trust- 
worthy information. 

Until  one  has  thoroughly  explored  all  these  depart- 
ments, all  these  sources  of  knowledge,  he  can  not  justly 
claim  to  have  made  himself  conversant  with  the  field  of 
the  historical  literature  of  Methodism. 

Our  limits  will  not  allow  us  to  speak  minutely  of  all 
the  works  which  Methodism  and  its  antagonists  have  pub- 
lished in  the  various  departments  here  named,  and  we 
must  content  ourselves  with  a  brief  survey  of  the  principal 
ones  which  are  accessible  to  the  general  student  of  our 
history. 

I.  The  rapid  progress  of  the  evangelistic  movement 


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begun  by  the  Wesleys  and  Whitefield  demanded  not  only 
apologetic  tracts  from  the  early  Methodists,  but,  in  process 
of  time,  historical  narratives  of  the  results  attained.  The 
first  full  account  of  that  great  movement  was  "  A  Chrono- 
logical History  of  the  People  called  Methodists,  from  their 
Rise  in  the  Year  1729  to  their  Last  Conference  in  1802," 
by  William  Myles,  London,  1803.  One  great  excellence 
of  the  work  is  the  many  original  documents  which  it  eon- 
tains.  "The  economy  of  Methodism,"  says  the  Methodist 
Magazine,  "on  account  of  the  numbers  and  respectability 
of  many  of  its  adherents,  becomes  more  and  more  a  sub- 
ject of  inquiry.  Many  wish  to  know  by  what  means  the 
Methodists,  in  the  course  of  about  seventy  years,  have  be- 
come so  numerous  a  people.  Some,  unacquainted  with 
their  economy,  are  wont  to  attribute  their  rapid  increase 
to  either  laxity  in  discipline  or  falsity  in  doctrine.  A  little 
attention  to  the  contents  of  the  volume  before  us  will  con- 
vince them  that  the  growing  prosperity  of  the  Methodists 
can  not  possibly  be  attributed  to  either  of  these  causes." 

The  earliest  history  in  this  country  was  Jesse  Lee's 
"  History  of  the  Methodists,"  published  in  1810.  Mr.  Lee 
issued  a  prospectus  and  took  up  subscriptions  for  this  work 
before  he  put  it  to  the  press.  The  list  of  names  at  the 
close,  of  those  who  subscribed  for  it,  shows  the  places  vis- 
ited by  him  personally,  and  the  interest  taken  by  the 
Church  generally  in  the  enterprise.  "  If  Mr.  Lee,"  says 
his  nephew,  Dr.  L.  M.  Lee,  recently  deceased,  who  wrote 
a  narrative  of  his  life  and  times,  "contributed  nothing  to 
the  literary  wealth  or  credit  of  Methodism,  he  has  brought 
it  under  great  and  lasting  obligations  for  his  collection  of 
facts ;  constituting,  as  they  do,  the  materials  out  of  which 
the  early  history  of  Methodism  in  America,  if  ever  better 
written,  must  of  necessity  be  composed.  Every  subsequent 
laborer  in  this  department  of  the  Church  will  be  compelled 
to  resort  to  Mr.  Lee  for  authority  as  well  as  information ; 
and  in  proportion  to  his  fidelity  here  will  his  work  be  true 


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129 


and  valuable.  And  while  the  credit  of  being  the  first  his- 
torian of  Methodism  belongs  to  him,  his  industry  in  col- 
lecting facts,  and  his  fidelity  in  recording  them,  will  entitle 
him  to  the  respect  and  gratitude  of  Methodism  to  the 
latest  period  of  its  history."  In  the  year  1807  Joseph 
Nightingale  published  at  London  "  A  Portraiture  of  Meth- 
odism," which  he  claimed  to  be  an  impartial  view  of  the 
rise,  progress,  doctrines,  discipline,  and  manners  of  the 
Wesleyan  Methodists.  Nightingale  had  been  a  preacher 
among  the  Wesleyans,  but  had  left  them  before  writing 
this  book,  which  is  rather  a  caricature  than  a  portraiture. 
It,  however,  suggested  the  preparation  of  another  work, 
by  Jonathan  Crowther,  which  was  issued  at  London  in 
1811,  and  reprinted  in  this  country  in  1813.  It  is  entitled 
"A  True  and  Complete  Portraiture  of  Methodism;  or, 
The  History  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodists,  including  their 
Rise,  Progress,  and  Present  State."  This  work  is  alto- 
gether trustworthy. 

In  1838  Nathan  Bangs  issued  the  first  volume  of  his 
"  History  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,"  and  com- 
pleted it  in  four  volumes  in  1841.  For  many  years  this 
was  the  standard  history  of  the  Church,  and  must  always 
be  regarded  as  a  monument  of  the  diligent  research  and 
painstaking  industry  of  the  author.  It  is  a  repertory  of 
facts,  many  of  which  fell  under  the  author's  own  observa- 
tion, and  from  which  all  subsequent  writers  have  drawn. 
Dr.  Robert  Baird  says  of  it  in  his  "  Religion  in  America," 
that  "it  is  an  invaluable  work,  written  in  a  truly  calm 
and  Christian  spirit,  and  displays  a  sincere  desire  to  pre- 
sent every  subject  which  it  treats  in  an  impartial  manner." 
Nor  is  this  praise  undeserved,  as  any  one  may  verify  by 
examining  the  work  itself. 

A  brief  "  History  of  the  Rise  and  Progress  of  Method- 
ism" in  England  and  America,  by  James  Youngs,  A.M., 
was  published  in  New  Haven  in  1830.  It  reached  a  sec- 
ond edition ;  but  its  circulation  was  confined  mainly  to  the 


130  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


New  England  States.  A  fuller  account  of  our  ecclesias- 
tical work  in  England  is  "The  History  of  the  Religious 
Movement  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,  called  Methodism," 
by  Dr.  Abel  Stevens,  in  three  volumes,  12mo.  This  work 
was  issued  in  New  York  in  1858-61.  The  style  is  picturesque 
and  the  narrative  deeply  interesting.  For  this  undertaking 
Dr.  Stevens  collected  ample  materials — and  the  materials 
are  not  scanty.  His  was  already  a  practiced  pen.  He  had 
acquired  an  easy  and  correct  style  by  his  former  publica- 
tions, "Sketches  and  Incidents;  or,  A  Budget  from  the 
Saddle-bags  of  a  Superannuated  Preacher"  (2  vols.,  18mo, 
1843)  ;  "  Memorials  of  the  Introduction  of  Methodism 
into  the  Eastern  States  "  (first  series,  1846 ;  second  series, 
1849);  "Sketches  from  the  Study  of  an  Itinerant" 
(16mo,  1847)  ;  and  "  An  Essay  on  Church  Polity"  (1847). 
As  editor  (of  Zion's  Herald,  The  National  Magazine,  and 
the  Christian  Advocate  and  Journal),  he  wrote  much  and 
well,  and  Hon.  Wm.  McArthur  (since  lord-mayor  of  Lon- 
don) said  of  this  work,  which  was  reprinted  in  London,  that 
"  what  Macaulay  has  done  for  England,  Stevens  has  done 
for  Methodism."  His  history  of  Methodism  was  followed 
by  a  "  History  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  the 
United  States  of  America,"  in  four  vols.,  12mo,  1864-67. 
Of  this  history  there  is  no  end  to  the  praise,  both  in  the 
Church  and  without.  The  Atlantic  Monthly  says:  "As  a 
history,  the  work  is  not  only  creditable  in  a  denomina- 
tional and  ecclesiastical  point  of  view,  but  it  is  a  valuable 
contribution  to  our  national  literature.  Any  ordinary  abil- 
ity would  have  made  a  readable  story  out  of  such  mate- 
rials ;  but  to  make  a  history  worthy  of  the  name  required 
the  hand  of  a  master."  This  work  has  been  condensed 
by  the  author  into  one  volume,  8vo. 

Dr.  Stevens's  histories  were  followed  by  "American 
Methodism/'  by  M.  L.  Scudder,  D.  D.,  in  a  portly  8vo 
volume,  published  as  a  subscription  book  (1867);  "A 
Comprehensive  History  of  Methodism,  in  one  volume," 


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(12mo),  by  James  Porter,  D.  D.  (1876);  "A  History  of 
Methodism,  for  Our  Young  People"  [and  a  good  one  for 
older  persons,  too],  by  Win.  W.  Bennett,  D.  D.  (1878)  ; 
"Methodism,  Old  and  New,  with  Sketches  of  Some  of  its 
Early  Preachers,"  by  J.  R.  Flanigen  (1880)  ;  and  by  a 
"  History  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  the 
United  States,"  by  Rev.  P.  Douglass  Gorrie  (1881).  Rev. 
Wm.  H.  Daniels  also  prepared  for  the  Methodist  Book 
Concern,  as  a  subscription  book,  an  "Illustrated  History 
of  Methodism,"  which  is  published  in  one  large  volume, 
8vo.  It  has  had  a  remarkable  success,  and  several  edi- 
tions have  already  been  printed. 

In  addition  to  the  histories  above  mentioned  there  are 
several  of  a  character  somewhat  different,  designed  to  show 
rather  the  inside  workings  of  the  Methodist  movement, 
and  to  present  its  statistical  results.  Of  this  class  we 
name  "A  Compendium  of  the  Laws  and  Regulations  of 
Wesleyan  Methodism,"  by  Edmund  Grindrod  (London, 
1842);  "A  Compendium  of  Methodism,  embracing  the 
History  and  Present  Condition  of  its  Various  Branches  in 
all  Countries,"  by  James  Porter,  D.  D.  (Boston,  1852)  ; 
"  Centenary  of  Wesleyan  Methodism  :  a  Brief  Sketch  of 
the  Rise,  Progress,  and  Present  State  of  the  Wesleyan 
Methodist  Societies  throughout  the  World,"  by  Rev.  Thos. 
Jackson  (1839)  ;  "  Methodism  in  its  Origin,  Economy, 
and  Present  Position,"  by  J.  Dixon,  D.  D.,  ex-president 
of  the  British  Conference  (18mo,  1848);  "Ireland  and 
the  Centenary  of  American  Methodism,"  by  Rev.  William 
Crook  (12mo,  London,  1866)  ;  "  Methodism  and  the  Cen- 
tennial of  American  Independence,"  by  Rev.  E.  M.  Wood 
(12mo,  1876)  ;  "  A  Hundred  Years  of  Methodism,"  by 
Bishop  M.  Simpson  (12mo,  1876) ;  "  Statistical  History  of 
American  Methodism  during  its  First  Century,"  by  Rev. 
C.  C.  Goss  (16mo,  1866)  ;  "  Centenary  of  American  Meth- 
odism," by  Abel  Stevens,  LL.  D.  (12mo,  1866);  "Fox 
and  Hoyt's  Quadrennial  Register  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 


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copal  Church,"  by  Henry  J.  Fox  and  W.  B.  Hoyt  (1852); 
4 'History  of  the  Discipline  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,"  by  Robert  Emory,  revised  and  brought  down  to 
1856,  by  W.  P.  Strickland;  "  History  of  the  Revisions  of 
the  Discipline,"  by  David  Sherman,  D.  D.  (12mo,  1874)  ; 
and  the  "  Cyclopaedia  of  Methodism,  embracing  Sketches 
of  its  Rise,  Progress,  and  Present  Condition,"  by  Bishop 
M.  Simpson  (large  8vo,  1878). 

Of  local  histories,  or  those  relating  to  portions  only  of 
the  territory  occupied  by  Methodism,  there  is  no  lack. 
We  name  the  more  important  of  these  in  the  order  of 
their  locality  rather  than  of  their  date.  "  Memorials  of 
the  Introduction  of  Methodism  into  the  Eastern  States" 
has  already  been  mentioned.  Others  relating  to  the  East- 
ern and  Central  States  are,  "Troy  Conference  Miscellany, 
containing  a  Historical  Sketch  of  Methodism  within  the 
Bounds  of  the  Troy  Conference,"  by  Rev.  Stephen  Parks, 
(12mo,  1854)  ;  "  Memorials  of  Methodism  in  New  Jersey," 
by  Rev.  John  Atkinson  (12mo,  1860)  ;  "Reminiscences  of 
Methodism  in  West  Jersey,"  by  G.  A.  Raybold  (18mo, 
1849)  ;  "  History  of  the  Wesley  M.  E.  Church  of  Brook- 
lyn, L.  I.,"  by  Gilbert  E.  Carrie  (12mo,  1876);  "Early 
Methodism  within  the  Bounds  of  the  Old  Genesee  Confer- 
ence, from  1788  to  1828,"  by  George  Peck,  D.  D.  (12mo, 
1860)  ;  "  History  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in 
Canada,"  by  Thomas  Webster  (12mo,  1870)  ;  "  Methodism 
within  the  Bounds  of  the  Erie  Conference,"  by  Rev.  S. 
Gregg  (1865)  ;  "  Sketches  of  Western  Methodism,  Bio- 
•  graphical,  Historical,  and  Miscellaneous,  illustrative  of 
Pioneer  Life,"  by  James  B.  Finley  (12mo,  1854)  ;  "Pages 
from  the  Early  History  of  the  West  and  North-west,  with 
Especial  Reference  to  the  History  of  Methodism,"  by  Rev. 
S.  R.  Beggs  (12mo,  1868)  ;  '"Indiana  Methodism  :  being  an 
Account  of  the  Introduction,  Progress,  and  Present  Posi- 
tion of  Methodism  in  the  State,"  by  Rev.  F.  C.  Holliday 
(8vo,  1873)  ;  "  Reminiscences  of  Early  Methodism  in  In- 


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diana,"  by  Rev.  J.  C.  Smith  (12mo,  1879)  ;  "  Protestantism 
in  Michigan:  being  a  Special  History  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  and  Incidentally  of  Other  Denomina- 
tions," by  Elijah  H.  Pilcher,  D.  D.  (8vo,  1879)  ;  "  History 
of  the  Organization  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
South,"  by  A.  H.  Bedford  (8vo,  1845);  "  Memorials  of 
Methodism  in  Virginia,  from  its  Introduction  in  1772  to 
the  year  1829,"  by  Rev.  W.  W.  Bennett  (12mo,  1871) ; 
"  The  History  of  Methodism  in  Kentucky,"  by  Bev.  A.  H. 
Bedford  (3  vols.,  12mo,  1868);  '  'Western  Cavaliers,"  a 
continuation  of  the  history  of  Methodism  in  Kentucky  to 
1844,  by  the  same  (12mo,  1876)  ;  "  History  of  Methodism 
in  Tennessee,"  by  J.  B.  McFerrin,  D.  D.  (3  vols.,  12mo, 
1875);  "The  History  of  Methodism  in  Georgia  and  Flor- 
ida, from  1785  to  1865,"  by  Rev.  George  G.  Smith  (12mo, 
1877)  ;  "Annals  of  Southern  Methodism  for  1855,"  1856, 
and  1857;  by  Charles  F.  Deems,  D.  D.  (3  vols.,  12mo, 
1856-58)  ;  "  History  of  the  Great  Secession,  eventuating  in 
the  Formation  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South," 
by  Charles  Elliott,  D.  D.  (large  8vo,  1855). 

II.  The  early  controversies  through  which  Methodism 
passed  were  chiefly  those  of  doctrine.  Calvinism  was  the 
dominant  creed  of  the  established  Church  and  of  the  ma- 
jority of  the  dissenters.  When  Mr.  Wesley  accepted  and 
began  to  preach  Arminian  theology,  he  was  at  once  antag- 
onized by  such  writers  as  Hervey,  Toplady,  Whitefield, 
Warburton,  and  others ;  hence  the  publication  of  his  "  Doc- 
trinal Tracts"  and  "Sermons."  These  were  followed  by 
other  polemical  and  apologetic  treatises,  notably  among 
them  those  of  Benson  and  Fletcher.  Methodism  attracted 
to  itself  many  strong  minds.  The  founder  of  the  Methodist 
system  was  himself  an  acute  dialectician,  and  Mr.  Fletcher 
is  unsurpassed  in  the  clearness  of  his  statements  and  the 
force  of  his  arguments,  as  shown  in  his  "  Checks."  Bich- 
ard  Watson's  "Institutes  of  Theology"  have  never  yet 
been  surpassed.     Adam   Clarke's  "  Commentaries"  and 


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"  Sermons"  are  strongholds  of  defense;  and  from  the  days 
of  the  first  planting  of  Methodism  at  home  and  abroad,  it 
has  been  compelled  to  give  an  account  of  itself. 

In  this  country  the  early  printed  controversial  works 
were  more  of  a  doctrinal  than  of  an  ecclesiastical  character, 
though  all  along  both  have  been  necessary  to  maintain 
sound  doctrine  and  establish  the  principles  of  Church  gov- 
ernment. After  the  organization  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  in  1784,  it  was  called  upon  to  defend  itself 
from  the  attacks  of  high-church  prelacy  on  the  one  hand 
and  of  the  presbyterian  economy  on  the  other.  The  former 
were  not  so  much,  however,  to  be  feared  as  the  latter,  as 
those  came  from  without,  these  from  within.  The  adher- 
ents of  James  O'Kelly  were  bitter  and  unscrupulous  in 
their  statements  and  reasonings,  as  he  was  himself.  One 
of  the  fruits  of  the  secession  which  he  led  was  ' 1  A  His- 
tory of  Episcopacy  in  four  parts"  (with  special  reference 
to  American  Methodism),  by  William  Guirey  (1796). 
Guirey  was  admitted  on  trial  as  a  preacher  in  1795,  but 
soon  withdrew.  Other  works,  in  opposition  to  the  Church 
doctrines  or  economy,  are,  "Episcopal  Methodism;  or, 
Dagonism  Exhibited,"  by  Rev.  Joshua  L.  Wilson  (Cincin- 
nati, 1812)  ;  "A  Plain  Exhibition  of  Methodist  Episco- 
pacy," by  Rev.  Asahel  Bronson,  an  Episcopal  minister 
(Burlington,  Vt.,  1844)  ;  "Difficulties  of  Arminian  Meth- 
odism," by  William  Annan  (fourth  edition  published  in 
1860);  "The  Government  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  Anti-republican  and  Despotic,"  by  Rev.  William 
McMichael  (Pittsburg,  1855) ;  "  The  Great  Iron  Wheel ;  or, 
Republicanism  Backwards  and  Christianity  Reversed,"  by 
Rev.  J.  R.  Graves,  Baptist  (Nashville,  1855);  "The 
Little  Iron  Wheel :  a  Declaration  of  Christian  Rights  and 
Articles,  showing  the  Despotism  of  Episcopal  Methodism," 
etc.,  by  the  same  (1857). 

When  the  lay  movement  and  the  mutual  rights  of  pas- 
tors and  people  were  first  agitated,  especially  between  1820 


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and  1830,  various  publications,  offensive  and  defensive, 
appeared.  Those  of  the  polemic  character  we  name  first : 
"  The  History  and  Mystery  of  the  Methodist  Episcopacy," 
by  Alexander  McCaine,  elder  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  (1827)  ;  "  An  Exposition  of  the  Late  Controversy 
iu  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,"  by  Samuel  K.  Jen- 
nings, M.  D.  (Baltimore,  1831);  "Essays  on  Lay  Repre- 
sentation and  Church  Government,"  by  Rev.  Nicholas 
Snethen  (Baltimore,  1835)  ;  "  View  of  the  Economy  of 
Methodism,"  from  the  Christian  Spectator  (1829);  "Brief 
View  of  the  Government  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,"  by  Rev.  W.  B.  Evaus  (1829)  ;  "  Essay  on  the 
Invalidity  of  Presbyterian  Ordination,"  by  John  Esten 
Cooke,  M.  D.  (1829)  ;  "  Tribute  to  Our  Fathers,"  by  Rev. 
R.  F.  Shinn  (1853)  ;  and  "  History  of  the  Methodist  Prot- 
estant Church,"  by  A.  H.  Bassett  (1882). 

The  works  written  in  defense  of  our  Church  economy 
and  government  are  more  numerous  and  accessible  to  the 
reader.  Among  them  are,  "  Defense  of  Our  Fathers  and 
of  the  Original  Organization  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,"  by  Bishop  John  Emory  (1827).  This  was  writ- 
ten in  answer  to  Alexander  McCaine  and  others,  and  was 
followed  by  "  The  Episcopal  Controversy  Reviewed," 
wiitten  by  the  same  pen.  The  latter  treatise  was  published 
posthumously  in  1838.  "An  Original  Church  of  Christ," 
by  Nathan  Bangs,  D.  D.,  is  in  the  same  line,  as  also 
"  Methodist  Episcopacy,"  a  tract  by  the  same  author. 
"  Ecclesiastical  Polity  of  Methodism  Defended,"  by  Rev. 
F.  Hodgson,  D.  D.,  was  suggested  by  attacks  made  in  the 
Calvinistic  Magazine  and  other  periodicals.  "  The  Great 
Iron  Wheel  Examined,"  by  Rev.  W.  G.  Brownlow,  is  a 
refutation  of  the  work  named  above.  "  Methodism  in  its 
Origin,  Economy,  and  Present  Position,"  by  J.  Dixon, 
D.  D.,  of  the  British  Conference  (1848)  ;  "  Inside  Views 
of  Methodism,"  by  Rev.  W.  Reddy  (1859);  "Platform 
of  Methodism,"  by  Rev.  M.  M.  Henkle  (Louisville,  1851); 


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"  Present  State,  Prospects,  and  Responsibilities  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,"  by  Nathan  Bangs,  D.  D. 
(1850);  "  Essay  on  Church  Polity,"  by  Abel  SteveDS, 
LL.  D.  (1847)  ;  "  Economy  of  Methodism  Illustrated  and 
Defended,"  by  Thomas  E.  Bond,  M.  D.  (1852),  consisting 
of  articles  written  during  the  "  Radical"  controversy  from 
1828  to  1830,  and  collected  into  book  form  ;  "Methodism 
Explained  and  Defended,"  by  Rev.  John  8.  Inskip  (Cin- 
cinnati, 1851)  ;  "  An  Essay  on  Apostolical  Succession,"  by 
Thomas  Powell,  AVesleyan  minister  (London,  1838) ; 
"Apostolic  Succession,"  by  Rev.  Richard  Tydings  (Louis- 
ville, 1844), — are  all  valuable  contributions  to  our  doc- 
trinal and  governmental  history. 

The  connection  of  the  Church  with  slavery  and  its 
subsequent  divorcement  were  the  occasion  of  a  protracted 
controversy.  The  abolition  sentiment  "  would  not  down," 
and  was  productive  of  at  least  two  schisms,  one  of  great 
magnitude.  The  first,  because  the  Church  would  not 
purge  itself  of  all  connection  with  slavery,  took  place  in 
1842,  and  eventuated  in  the  formation  of  the  "  Wesleyan 
Connection the  other,  because  the  General  Conference 
would  not  countenance  slaveholding  in  its  ministry,  caused 
the  withdrawal  of  all  the  Southern  conferences  and  the 
organization  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South. 
In  this  connection  we  can  name  only  the  larger  or  more 
important  publications  on  this  subject,  in  addition  to  those 
already  given  relating  to  the  Church  South  :  "  Slavery 
and  the  Episcopacy,"  by  George  Peck,  D.  D.  (1845)  ; 
"  Slavery  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,"  by  Rev.  E. 
Bowen  (1859)  ;  "  Methodism  and  Slavery,"  by  H.  B.  Bas- 
com,  D.  D.  (1845);  "The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
and  Slavery,"  by  Rev.  Daniel  DeVinne  (1857);  "An 
Appeal  to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  on  Slavery," 
by  Abel  Stevens,  D.  D. ;  "Stevens  Answered  in  his  Ap- 
peal," by  J.  K.  Peck;  "The  Impending  Crisis  of  1860," 
by  Hiram  Mattison,  D.  D.  (1858);  "The  Antislavery 


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Struggle  and  Triumph  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church," 
by  L.  C.  Matlack,  D.  D*  (1881).  Several  important 
works  defending  slavery  were  published  in  the  South,  and 
a  number  of  transient  publications  on  both  sides  of  "  Ma- 
son and  Dixon's  line." 

III.  The  missions  sustained  by  the  Church  have  an 
interesting  history.  From  the  time  when  Dr.  Coke  urged 
the  Wesleyan  Conference  to  establish  missions  abroad,  and 
especially  the  one  in  India,  Methodism  has  been  on  the 
alert  to  enter  every  open  door.  As  she  was  herself  the 
child  of  Providence,  so  have  her  missions  been.  Now 
they  occupy  stations  in  every  quarter  of  the  globe. 
Through  her  agency 

"  The  Western  empires  own  their  Lord, 
And  savage  tribes  attend  his  word." 

In  the  catalogue  of  books  at  the  close  of  this  volume  a 
large  list  of  works  on  the  subject  of  missions  is  given. 
Though  by  no  means  complete,  not  even  for  those  of  our 
own  Church,  a  careful  study  of  any  one  section  will  give 
the  reader  a  vast  amount  of  information  concerning  the 
origin,  history,  and  present  condition  of  our  foreign  or 
domestic  missionary  work  in  the  particular  department 
comprehended. 

IV.  The  periodicals  of  Methodism  are  numerous.  Mr. 
Wesley  early  recognized  the  importance  of  disseminating 
useful  intelligence  among  his  societies,  and  in  1778  estab- 
lished the  Arminian  Magazine  (afterward  called  The  Meth- 
odist Magazine,  and  now  TJie  Wesley an-Methodist  Magazine). 
It  has  been  published  uninterruptedly  for  one  hundred  and 
four  years.  In  this  country  an  Arminian  Magazine  (mainly 
a  reprint  of  Mr.  Wesley's)  was  undertaken,  and  one  or 
two  volumes  were  published  about  1779  and  1780;  but  the 
time  had  not  arrived  for  a  successful  venture  in  this  line, 
and  the  undertaking  was  given  up.  In  1818  The  Method- 
ist Magazine  was  commenced,  and  eleven  volumes  were 
printed  in  monthly  numbers.    The  work  was  then  changed 


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to  a  quarterly,  and  is  still  continued  as  The  Methodist  Quar- 
terly Review.  The  Ladies'  Repository  was  published  from  1841 
to  1876  inclusive  (36  volumes)  ;  The  National  Magazine , 
from  1852  to  1858  (13  volumes) ;  and  The  National  Repos- 
itory from  1877  to  1880  (eight  volumes).  The  Church 
South  has  had  its  QuaHerly  Review,  Ladies7  Some  Compan- 
ion and  Home  Circle.  The  Methodist  Reformers  (Method- 
ist Protestant  Church)  had  their  IV&sleyan  Repository  and 
Mutual  Rights,  in  answer  to  which  The  Itinerant  was  pub- 
lished under  the  editorship  of  Melville  B.  Cox.  The  pa- 
pers established  and  issued  by  the  Church  are  numerous, 
and  we  can  not  specify  them.  The  oldest  are  Zion's  Her- 
ald, Christian  Advocate  (New  York),  and  the  Western  Chris- 
tian Advocate  (Cincinnati). 

V.  Lastly,  among  the  sources  of  Methodist  history  are 
the  general  "  Minutes  of  Conferences,"  the  "  Journals  of  the 
General  Conference,"  "  The  Methodist  Almanac  and  Year- 
book" (from  1834)  ;  and  the  published  diaries  of  Method- 
ist preachers.  As  these  last  are  referred  to  under  the  head 
of  "Methodist  Biography,"  we  need  not  name  any  of  them 
here.  The  first  separate  "Minutes"  printed  of  the  indi- 
vidual conferences  were  those  of  the  Pittsburg  Conference 
in  1826.  The  same  conference  issued  a  second  number  of 
its  minutes  in  1836  ;  and  since  the  year  1850  the  example 
thus  set  has  been  followed  by  nearly  all  the  conferences  in 
the  connection.  These  are  now  recognized  as  the  official 
records  of  their  proceedings,  when  properly  attested  by  the 
secretaries  and  presiding  bishops ;  and  as  they  contain  the 
reports  of  conference  committees,  and  many  of  them  the 
memoirs  of  the  deceased  wives  of  the  traveling  preachers, 
they  are  important  sources  of  information  to  the  students 
and  writers  of  our  Church  history. 

F.  S.  IIOYT. 


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139 


X. 

THE  LITERATURE  OF  SACRED  SONG. 

I  like  very  much  the  anecdote,  true  or  apocryphal — 
and  I  care  little  which — of  an  East  Indian  prince  who 
came  to  England  for  the  purpose  of  studying  her  people 
and  her  institutions.  After  some  time  spent  in  becoming 
acquainted  with  the  most  salient  facts  of  our  Western  civ- 
ilization— the  shipping,  the  docks,  and  the  wharves;  the 
shops  and  the  warehouses;  the  tramways  and  the  railroads; 
the  schools,  libraries,  museums,  and  churches ;  and,  above 
all.  the  happy  homes  filled  with  comfortable  and  cultured 
people,  he  was  finally  admitted  to  an  interview  with  Eng- 
land's Christian  queen,  when  the  question  which  had  been 
shaping  itself  in  all  the  mouths  leaped  forth  into  eager 
expression.  4 'Tell  me,"  said  he,  "if  you  can,  what  is  the 
the  secret  of  all  this  wonderful  prosperity  and  power?" 
And  it  is  said  that  the  queen  placed  her  hand  on  a  Bible 
lying  by,  and  replied:  "This  is  the  secret  of  England's 
greatness.''  Never  was  all  that  is  worth  knowing  of  polit- 
ical philosophy  more  successfully  condensed  into  a  single 
sentence.  The  fact  that  there  are  to-day  in  the  English 
language  alone  probably  not  less  than  a  hundred  millions 
of  copies  of  the  Bible  in  whole  or  in  part,  is  the  one  all- 
comprehending  secret  of  the  rapidly  augmenting  power  of 
English-speaking  peoples. 

Now,  wherever  this  Bible  has  gone,  another  book  has 
gone  too,  waiting  upon  it  as  the  moon  upon  the  sun,  and 
shining  by  its  reflected  light — 

"  Leaving  that  beautiful  which  still  was  so, 
And  making  that  which  was  not." 


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Of  course  I  mean  the  hymn-book — a  book  which  to-day 
waits  for  recognition,  and  intelligent  and  loving  study 
almost  as  much  as  the  Bible  itself.  The  fatal  ignorance 
by  which  men  are  "alienated  from  the  life  of  God"  is 
doubtless  the  ignorance  of  his  Word  and  his  »Son ;  but 
closely  related  to  this  is  the  almost  universal  indifference 
to  those  voices  of  the  Christian  life  which  are  heard  in 
sacred  song.  Not  that  there  is  no  delight  in  Christian 
hymns ;  on  the  contrary,  they  sometimes  gather  up  in  their 
history  the  sweetest  and  intensest  experiences  of  the  peo- 
ple of  God.  There  are  not  a  few  into  whose  memories 
verses  of  hymns  entered  earlier  than  verses  of  Scripture, 
and  they  will  be  more  likely  to  repeat  them  with  their 
dying  breath.  And  yet  many  of  these  hymns  which  are 
most  precious  wait  for  an  intelligent  recognition.  They 
have  never  been  made  the  subject  of  study.  It  has 
never  been  taken  in  hand  to  inquire  as  to  their  origin, 
their  meaning,  their  character,  their  history,  and  their 
uses.  Though  the  most  articulate  and  adequate,  as  well 
as  beautiful  and  harmonious,  of  all  the  utterances  of  the 
Christian  life,  they  are  not  by  the  masses  thoroughly  un- 
derstood. And  it  is  because  of  this  too  general  neglect 
and  indifference  that  I  select,  for  the  few  pages  which  I 
may  here  fill,  the  task  of  calling  attention  to  some  of  the 
more  important  aspects  of  this  subject. 

1.  As  we  contemplate  lyric  poetry  in  general  the  first 
thing  which  arrests  our  attention- is  its  antiquity.  The 
earliest  of  extant  literature  comes  to  us  in  this  form.  The 
oldest  bit  of  literature  in  the  Hebrew  Bible,,  and  in  all 
probability  the  oldest  in  the  world,  is  the  song  of  Lamech, 
which  is  given  in  the  fourth  chapter  of  Genesis.  This  seems 
to  have  been  preserved  in  its  original  form,  and  is  a  very  per- 
fect specimen  of  Hebrew  and  Oriental  poetry,  illustrating 
parallelism,  assonance,  and  the  strophical  structure.  Ho- 
mer, the  earliest  of  Greek  writers  whose  works  have  come 
down  to  us,  is  scarcely  more  thau  half-way  to  the  time  of 


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this  ancient  song.  It  goes  more  than  two  thousand  years 
beyond  Moses,  though  he  very  greatly  outranks  every 
other  known  author  in  extant  literature.  And  Moses  is 
represented  by  several  notable  lyrical  compositions;  one 
of  which,  the  ninetieth  Psalm,  has  been  the  great  funeral 
hymn  in  all  the  Christian  centuries. 

The  oldest  literature  of  the  Hindoos  is  the  collection 
of  lyric  poems  known  as  the  Vedas.  Very  extravagant 
claims  have  been  made  as  to  their  antiquity;  but  it  is 
quite  impossible  to  fix  with  certainty,  or  even  strong  prob- 
ability, their  absolute  date.  The  one  thing  which  is  cer- 
tain is,  that  Hindoo  literature,  like  Hebrew,  is  stratified, 
and  that  these  Vedic  hymns  constitute  the  lowest  stratum, 
and  it  is  believed  by  those  most  competent  to  form  an 
opinion  that  they  may  safely  be  set  down  as  about  three 
thousand  years  old. 

Similar  is  the  date  of  the  Chinese  "  Book  of  Odes," 
also  a  collection  of  lyric  poems.  It  is  not  only  the  oldest 
of  the  Chinese  classics,  but  one  of  the  very  oldest  books 
in  all  literature,  probably  ranking  in  this  regard  with  the 
Vedas  and  the  Davidic  Psalms. 

Nor  is  this  form  of  literature  obsolete.  It  is  as  well 
suited  to  an  enlightened  as  a  barbaric  age,  and  is  as  much 
at  home  in  the  life  of  the  cultured  as  in  the  tent  of  the ' 
nomad.  In  no  previous  period  in  the  history  of  Chris- 
tianity has  lyric  poetry  been  so  multiplied  as  in  the  cent- 
uries of  Protestantism.  When  Luther  arose,  it  is  esti- 
mated that  there  were  in  existence  in  all  languages  about 
one  thousand  Christian  hymns ;  now  there  are  probably 
one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand.  Then,  too,  they  were 
largely  ecclesiastical  in  their  character,  the  exclusive  prop- 
erty of  the  priest,  the  choir,  and  the  Church ;  now  they 
constitute  a  liturgy  of  the  people,  so  that  wherever  there 
is  a  worshiper  there  is  likely  to  be  a  hymn. 

2.  This  leads  me  to  say  that  the  enormous  volume  of 
hymnic  literature  claims  attention.     It  is  estimated  that 


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there  are  in  the  German  language  alone  not  far  from  one 
hundred  thousand  hymns,  and  in  the  English  language 
about  one-half  that  number.  As  early  as  the  year  1751 
J.  Jacob  V.  Moser  collected  a  register  of  fifty  thousand 
printed  hymns  in  the  German  language.  One  single  au- 
thor in  the  English  language,  Charles  Wesley,  wrote  about 
eight  thousand  hymns;  another,  Watts,  more  than  one 
thousand.  Count  Zinzendorf  wrote  about  two  thousand 
hymns,  and  Schmolke  more  than  a  thousand.  The  Mora- 
vian hymn-book,  with  its  appendices  and  additions,  as  early 
as  1759,  contained  two  thousand  three  hundred  and  fifty- 
seven  hymns.  Six  years  earlier  Count  Zinzendorf  had 
published  a  collection  of  German  hymns  comprising  two 
thousand  one  hundred  and  sixty-eight,  to  which  in  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  added  a  thousand  more.  In  more  recent 
years  such  men  as  Doddridge,  Cowper,  Newton,  Stennett, 
Keble,  Bonar,  and  a  host  of  others,  have  made  such  large 
additions  to  the  body  of  our  hymnology  as  to  be  deserving 
of  special  mention.  Now,  when  it  is  considered  that 
among  these  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  hymns  there 
are  some  of  the  most  exquisite  gems  in  all  literature,  pro- 
ductions recording  the  deepest  convictions  of  the  human 
mind  and  the  richest  experiences  of  the  human  heart,  and 
such,  too,  as  have  been  admitted  to  the  most  sacred  offices 
in  human  life,  it  will  most  certainly  appear  that  here  is  a 
field  of  literature  which  no  lover  of  God  or  of  man  can 
afford  to  be  wrholly  ignorant  of. 

But  all  this  is  only  a  part,  and  the  less  important  part, 
of  the  case.  Aside  from  the  Christian  Scriptures,  nothing 
in  literature  has  been  so  multiplied  as  copies  of  Christian 
hymns.  Nothing  else  is  so  familiar  to  human  utterance, 
nothing  so  deeply  engraven  on  the  memory  and  on  the 
heart ;  nothing  so  perfectly  befits  human  experience  in  all 
its  aspects  and  conditions.  The  multiplication  of  certain 
choice  and  popular  books,  such  as  the  "  Imitatwm"  the 
"Pilgrim's  Progress,"  the  44  Thousand  and  One  Nights," 


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and  others  which  will  readily  recur  to  our  thought,  in 
many  languages  and  in  every  conceivable  style  of  print 
and  binding,  cheap  and  popular  as  well  as  sumptuous  and 
costly,  is  something  wonderful,  and  attests  most  conclu- 
sively their  vitality  and  their  adaptation  to  the  soil  in 
which  they  have  been  planted.  And  yet  in  this  very  re- 
gard they  fall  immeasurably  short  of  Christian  hymns. 
Some  of  the  most  popular  of  these — such  as  ' 1  Rock  of 
ages,"  "Jesus,  lover  of  my  soul,"  "Just  as  I  am,"  etc. — 
have  been  multiplied  and  scattered,  and  engraven  on  hu- 
man hearts  and  memories  as  nothing  else  has  been.  They 
have  been  multiplied  literally  by  the  million.  They  have  be- 
come a  part  of  the  common  life  of  the  people,  free  and  uni- 
versal as  air  or  water  or  light.  It  would  be  a  hopeless  task 
to  attempt  an  enumeration  of  the  copies  of  that  precious 
hymn,  "  Rock  01  ages,"  which  have  been  made  in  the  last 
hundred  years ;  but  they  have  gone  rapidly  toward,  if  not 
actually  beyond,  a  hundred  million.  Now,  a  literature 
which  has  become  so  wonderfully  diffused  must  be  a  most 
potent  and  significant  factor  in  human  life,  and  fully  com- 
mends itself  to  the  attention  and  study  of  every  Christian 
scholar. 

3.  This  suggests  how  important  hymns  may  be  as  a  means 
of  influence.  A  hymn  is  the  most  subtle  and  spiritual 
thing-  a  man  can  create.  It  can  go  where  nothing  else 
can,  and  do  what  nothing  else  can.  When  re-enforced  by 
harmonious  and  soul-stirring  music,  it  is  sometimes  almost 
irresistible.  Sung  by  thousands  of  human  voices,  and  thus 
becoming  a  channel  through  which  the  full  tide  of  human 
sympathy  is  made  to  flow,  it  is  perhaps  the  best  suggestion 
of  the  worship  of  heaven  which  we  may  ever  receive  in 
this  earthly  state.  Many  a  soul  has  been  borne  aloft  on 
the  wings  of  holy  song  into  an  experience  which,  in  all 
essential  particulars,  is  identical  with  that  of  those  who 
worship  before  the  throne  in  heaven.  And  many  a  cal- 
lous sinner  has  been  reached  and  called  back  from  his 


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apostasy  and  rebellion  by  Christian  song  when  nothing 
else  could  have  gained  access  to  him. 

In  the  time  of  the  Wesleys  the  little  Methodist  society 
in  Wexford,  Ireland,  was  so  persecuted  by  the  Catholics 
that  it  was  obliged  to  hold  its  meetings  by  stealth  in  a 
closed  barn.  One  violent  opposer,  finding  it  out,  arranged 
to  conceal  himself  in  a  sack  in  the  barn,  so  that  he  might 
open  the  door  to  his  comrades  so  soon  as  the  worship 
should  begin.  The  singing  began,  and  the  man  was  so 
much  charmed  with  the  music  that  he  waited  to  hear  it 
through  before  he  should  begin  his  disturbance.  And  then 
he  waited  to  hear  the  prayer,  in  the  midst  of  which  he 
was  seized  with  remorse  and  trembling,  so  that  he  roared 
with  fright,  and  emerged  from  his  strange  concealment  a 
trembling  penitent,  and  was  soon  genuinely  converted. 
Southey  calls  this  "  the  most  comical  case  of  instantaneous 
conversion  that  ever  was  recorded." 

There  is  a  familiar  incident  connected  with  one  of 
Phoebe  Cary's  hymns  which  may  well  be  taken  as  repre- 
sentative of  a  very  large  class  of  similar  instances  show- 
ing the  power  of  sacred  song.  A  few  years  since  two 
men,  Americans — one  middle-aged  and  the  other  a  young 
man — met  in  a  gambling-house  in  Canton,  China.  They 
had  been  engaged  in  play  together  during  the  evening, 
and  the  young  man  had  lost  heavily.  While  the  older 
one  was  shuffling  the  cards  for  a  new  deal,  his  companion 
leaned  back  in  his  chair  and  began  mechanically  humming 
Miss  Cary's  exquisite  hymn,  "  One  sweetly  solemn  thought." 
As  these  words,  so  tender  and  beautiful,  "fell  on  the  ear  of 
the  man  hardened  in  sin,  dead  memories  in  his  heart  came 
to  life  again.  He  sprang  up  excitedly,  exclaiming,  "Where 
did  you  learn  that  hymn?  I  can't  stay  here!"  And,  in 
spite  of  the  remonstrances  and  taunts  of  his  companion,  he 
almost  dragged  him  from  the  place,  and  poured  into  hie 
ear  the  story  of  his  long  wanderings  from  a  happy  Chris- 
tian home.    He  expressed  his  determination  to  lead  a  bet- 


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ter  life,  and  urged  his  companion  in  sin"  to  join  him.  The 
resolution  was  kept;  the  man  was  reclaimed,  and  the  story 
of  his  recovery  came  back  to  bless  Miss  Gary  before  she 
died.  This  hymn,  God's  sweet-voiced  but  invisible  angel, 
had  gone  with  the  man  through'  all  these  weary  years  of 
sin,  and  finally  led  him  back  to  life  and  purity  and  sal- 
vation. 

4.  The  function  of  song  as  an  instrument  of  expression 
needs  to  be  considered.  This  is  by  no  means  unimportant, 
though  in  this  utilitarian  age  it  may  less  engage  attention. 
The  realm  of  art  is  higher  than  that  of  mere  instrumental 
efficiency.  It  is  most  intimately  related  to  the  noblest  ca- 
pacities and  activities  of  the  human  spirit.  These  are 
essentially  creative,  and  do  not  find  their  full  scope  in  the 
mere  adjustment  of  means  to  utilitarian  ends.  In  the  per- 
fect life  of  the  eternal  future  it  is  possible  that  these  two 
forms  of  activity  may  blend  in  indissoluble  unity ;  but  in 
the  life  that  now  is,  the  question  "  Qui  bonof"  is  sometimes 
allowed  to  crowd  out  the  very  best  things  in  human  expe- 
rience. The  highest  exercise  to  which  the  soul  can  ever 
come — and  it  is  one  which  shall  occupy  it  in  the  ages  of 
the  eternal  years — is  that  of  expression ;  and  in  this  will  be 
embodied  our  proper  selfhood,  together  with  the  impres- 
sions by  which  our  individual  natures  have  been  developed 
and  enriched. 

Here,  then,  comes  into  view  a  function  of  song  which 
allies  it  most  intimately  with  the  highest  possibilities  of 
human  experience,  even  with  those  of  the  perfect  life. 
When  the  soul  afrmes  to  its  divinest  heights  song  is  sure  to 
be  there.  If  it  is  not  already  in  waiting  it  is  created,  as 
were  the  Magnificat  and  the  Nunc  Dimittis.  Not  that  any 
expression  may  be  adequate.  He  has  had  little  of  what 
should  be  called  experience  who  has  not  known  emotions 
"  too  deep  for  tears."  There  is  a  "  peace  that  passe th  un- 
derstanding" and  a  "joy  that  is  unspeakable  and  full  of 
glory."    But  song  and  music  go  with  the  spirit  to  the 

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uttermost  limit  of  rational  expression,  and  so  minister  to 
its  highest  needs.  It  used  to  be  said  of  Luther  that  his 
soul  could  never  find  full  vent  "  except  through  his  flute 
amid  tears."  Good  old  George  Herbert  was  wont  to  say 
that  "the  time  he  spent  in  prayer  and  cathedral  music 
was  his  heaven  upon  earth  ;"  and  on  the  last  Sunday  of 
his  life  he  sprang  from  his  couch,  seized  his  violin,  and 
exclaimed : 

"My  God!  my  God!  my  music  shall  find  thee, 
And  every  string  shall  have  its  attribute  to  sing." 

And  then,  after  tuning  his  instrument,  he  sang  a  verse  of 
his  own  hymn : 

"The  Sundays  of  man's  life, 

Threaded  together  on  Time's  string, 

Make  bracelets  to  adorn  the  wife 
Of  the  eternal,  glorious  King. 

On  Sundays  heaven's  door  stands  ope ; 
Blessings  are  plentiful  and  rife — 

More  plentiful  than  hope." 

5.  Finally,  we  must  recognize  the  function  of  song  as 
a  record  of  individual  and  national  life.  This  is  involved  in 
its  origin  and  nature,  as  well  as  in  its  uses  and  associa- 
tions. That  which  most  distinguishes  lyric  poetry  is  its 
subjectivity.  If  genuine,  it  must  bear  the  stamp  of  per- 
sonal experience;  and  so  it  becomes  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant records  of  human  life.  The  history  which  lies 
imbedded  in  the  poetry  of  the  world  is  more  comprehen- 
sive and  more  minute  than  any  other  written  history. 

The  great  hymn  of  Luther,  "A  stro»g  tower  is  our 
God,"  was- written  at  the  time  of  that  grand  historical  pro- 
test in  which  the  name  "Protestant"  originated,  and  so  it  is 
monumental  of  this  name  as  nothing  else  is.  That  precious 
hymn  of  Christian  trust  translaced  by  John  Wesley,  "  Com- 
mit thou  all  thy  griefs,"  from  Paul  Gerhardt,  was  written 
when  its  author,  with  his  wife  and  little  children,  was  mak- 
ing his  toilsome  journey  on  foot  back  to  his  native  Saxony, 


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having  been  driven  out  from  his  church  at  Berlin  because 
of  his  uncompromising  adherence  to  the  Lutheran  doctrine. 
The  lines  were  called  forth  by  his  wife's  tears,  though  they 
were  doubtless  addressed  as  much  to  himself  as  to  her. 
Anne  Steele's  best  hymn,  "  Father,  whate'er  of  earthly 
bliss,"  is  the  outcome  of  an  experience  of  sorrow  from  be- 
reavement and  hopeless  invalidism  such  as  few  are  called 
to  know.  Very  similar  is  the  history  of  that  most  pathetic 
hymn  of  Schmolke,  "  My  Jesus,  as  thou  wilt."  The  one 
universally  familiar  hymn  of  John  Fawcett,  "  Blest  be  the 
tie  that  binds,"  reflects  the  affectionate  importunity  of  his 
little  flock,  by  which  he  was  led  to  forego  London,  to  a 
church  in  which  he  had  received  a  very  flattering  call, 
and  thus,  through  this  hymn,  to  become  a  citizen  of  the 
Christian  world.  That  hymn  of  Charles  Wesley  which 
has,  from  the  first,  held  the  place  of  honor  in  all  the  lead- 
ing Methodist  hymn-books,  "  O  for  a  thousand  tongues," 
was  written  on  the  first  anniversary  of  his  spiritual  birth ; 
and  its  opening  line  is  an  echo  of  a  remark  of  the  good 
Peter  Bohler,  "  Had  I  a  thousand  tongues  I  would  use 
them  all  in  celebrating  the  praises  of  Jesus,  my  Savior." 
Another  hymn  of  his,  which  is  pronounced  by  Southey 
"the  finest  lyric  in  the  English  language" — "Stand  the 
omnipotent  decree" — has  for  its  historic  background  the 
Lisbon  earthquake  and  the  prevailing  consternation  pro- 
duced by  this  appalling  calamity.  That  most  beautiful 
hymn  of  Henry  Francis  Lyte,  and  one  of  the  most  beauti- 
ful in  our  language,  reflects  the  experience  of  a  devoted 
pastor  on  the  Sabbath  of  his  final  parting  with  his  affec- 
tionate people,  when  the  darkness  of  fatal  disease  and 
swiftly  coming  death  was  gathering  fast  about  him.  "Rock 
of  Ages,"  as  every  body  knows,  is  a  monument  of  the  thor- 
ough misunderstanding  into  which  a  belligerent  Calvinist 
had  come  of  the  Methodist  doctrine  of  Christian  perfection ; 
for  it  at  first  bore  this  controversial  title,  "  A  Living  and 
Dying  Prayer  for  the  Holiest  Believer  in  the  World ;"  and 


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the  heartiness  with  which  Methodists  have  taken  up  this 
hymn,  written  to  refute  one  of  their  most  cherished  and 
most  vital  beliefs,  proves  most  conclusively  that  in  all  mat- 
ters of  heart  experience  real  Christians  are  one.  And,  to 
mention  but  one  more — but  that  shall  be  the  most  ecumen- 
ical hymn  of  this  century — "Just  as  I  am,"  of  Charlotte 
Elliott,  stands  in  the  very  heart  of  evangelical  Protestant- 
ism. The  Haldanes,  the  great  revival  in  Geneva,  and 
especially  that  eminent  man  of  God,  Dr.  Caesar  Malan,  are 
all  commemorated  in  this  hymn.  Miss  Elliott  had  come 
to  a  spiritual  awakening,  and  realized  her  need  of  a  posi- 
tive religious  experience.  For  months  her  one  prayer  was 
that  she  might  know  Christ  as  her  personal  Savior.  But 
for  some  reason  she  felt  herself  unable  to  lay  hold  of  him 
by  faith,  and  so  this  sense  of  spiritual  comfort  was  denied 
her.  Her  sister,  who  had  been  in  a  similar  state  of  mind, 
had  come  to  the  comfortable  assurance  of  sins  forgiven, 
and  this  served  to  deepen  Charlotte's  despondency.  At 
this  time  (May,  1827)  Dr.  Malan  visited  at  Miss  Elliott's 
home,  and  became  acquainted  with  her  spiritual  state. 
One  day  he  suddenly  turned  to  her  and  said:  "  Cut  the 
cable,  dear  Charlotte.  It  will  take  too  long  to  unloose  it. 
Cut  it;  it  is  a  small  loss;"  and  then  exhorted  her  to 
"  give  one  look,  silent,  but  continuous,  to  the  cross  of 
Jesus."  Challenged  thus  abruptly,  she  was  driven  from 
herself  into  Christ;  and  the  result  was  that  she  found 
the  assurance  she  had  so  long  been  seeking.  All  this  is 
reflected  in  this  most  intensely  and  felicitously  evangelical 
hymn : 

"Just  as  I  am,  without  one  plea, 
But  that  thy  blood  wras  shed  for  me, 
And  that  thou  bidst  me  come  to  thee, 
0  Lamb  of  God,  I  come !" 

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XI. 

THE  LITERATURE  OF  BIBLE  STUDY. 

Throughout  its  entire  history  the  Methodist  Church 
has  given  "  attendance  to  reading."  On  that  very  passage 
of  Scripture  its  founder  made  this  comment  in  his  "Notes 
on  the  New  Testament :"  "  Give  thyself  to  reading,  both 
publicly  and  privately.  Enthusiasts,"  he  exclaims,  "  ob- 
serve this !  Expect  no  end  without  the  means."  With 
this  principle  announced  as  a  fundamental  truth  in  Chris- 
tian economics,  and  realizing  the  potency  and  value  of 
Christian  literature,  Mr.  Wesley  at  once  inaugurated  a 
system  of  comprehensive  and  extensive  publication,  the 
chief  object  of  which  was  to  aid  in  the  study  and  under- 
standing of  the  Sacred  Scriptures,  and  to  promote  the 
spiritual  life  and  growth  of  the  soul.  He  practiced  upon 
his  own  precepts,  and  was  a  most  voluminous  reader  and 
writer. 

As  early  as  1754,  when  Methodism  as  an  organization 
had  been  only  fifteen  years  in  existence,  Mr.  Wesley  com- 
menced writing  his  "Notes  on  the  New  Testament,"  in 
the  hope  of  employing  them  as  an  evangelical  agency,  and 
designing  them,  as  he  says,  "chiefly  for  plain,  unlettered 
men,  who  understand  only  their  mother  tongue,  and  yet 
reverence  and  love  the  Word  of  God,  and  have  a  desire  to 
save  their  souls."  In  the  Preface  he  tells  us  that  for  many 
years  he  had  contemplated  such  a  work  as  this ;  and,  as 
evidence  of  his  preparation  for  such  a  task,  it  may  be 
stated  that  in  ten  weeks  after  he  began  the  work  the  rough 
draft  of  the  translation  and  notes  of  the  four  Gospels  was 
completed. 


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In  1755  it  was  published  in  quarto  form,  entitled, 
"Explanatory  Notes  on  the  New  Testament."  Two  years 
afterward  a  second  edition  appeared,  and  in  1760,  in  con- 
nection with  his  brother,  he  carefully  compared  the  trans- 
lation with  the  original,  and  corrected  and  improved  the 
Notes,  and  published  the  whole  in  a  new  and  enlarged 
edition.  The  translation  used  in  the  Notes,  and  on  which 
he  makes  his  comments,  is  one  that  Mr.  Wesley  himself 
made ;  and,  as  an  evidence  of  his  advanced  scholarship, 
even  at  that  early  peiiod,  it  may  be  stated  as  a  remarka- 
ble fact  that  many  of  the  verbal  changes  made  in  the  Re- 
vised Version  of  1881,  and  which  are  claimed  by  its  friends 
to  give  it  a  special  excellence,  were  anticipated  and  pub- 
lished by  John  Wesley  one  hundred  and  twenty-seven 
years  ago.  It  was  also  published  in  paragraphs,  and  no  im- 
provement on  Mr.  Wesley's  paragraphing  has  been  made 
by  the  committee  of  the  Jerusalem  Chamber.  He  says 
that  he  did  not  alter  the  authorized  version  for  altering's 
sake,  but  only  where  the  sense  was  made  better,  stronger, 
clearer,  or  more  consistent  with  the  context,  or  where  the 
sense  being  equally  good,  the  phrase  was  better  or  nearer 
the  original. 

These  Notes  won  approval  from  many  eminent  scholars 
for  their  conciseness,  spirituality,  acuteness,  and  soundness 
of  opinion,  and  it  is  a  question  with  many  even  yet  whether 
their  value  has  really  been  superseded  by  the  productions 
of  later  scholarship.  Dr.  Etheridge,  a  modern  scholar, 
says  that  "  Wesley  expresses  more  in  a  sentence  than 
many  writers  in  whole  pages,"  and  Dr.  Adam  Clarke  wrote 
that,  "though  short,  the  notes  are  always  judicious,  accu- 
rate, spiritual,  terse,  and  impressive,  and  possess  the  happy 
and  rare  property  of  leading  the  reader  immediately  to 
God  and  his  own  heart." 

In  1765  Mr.  Wesley  published  his  "Explanatory 
Notes  on  the  Old  Testament,"  in  three  quarto  volumes,  in 
which  he  gave  the  pith  of  Matthew  Henry's  Exposition, 


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with  selections  from  Poole's  Annotations,  to  which  were 
added  copious  observations  of  his  own. 

The  next  important  undertaking  in  this  department  of 
literature  among  the  Methodists  was  not  published  until 
1801.  In  that  year  Dr.  Thomas  Coke  issued  the  first 
volume  of  his  "  Commentary  on  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ments," and  this  was  followed  by  five  other  volumes,  the 
last  of  which  appeared  in  1803.  In  the  preparation  of 
this  work  Dr.  Coke  was  assisted  by  Samuel  Drew,  well 
known  as  the  author  of  a  work  on  the  "  Immortality  of 
the  Human  Soul,"  and  the  subsequent  biographer  of  Dr. 
Coke.  Although  this  work  drew  largely  upon  a  previous 
one  by  Dr.  Dodd,  it  was  nevertheless  a  thoroughly  good 
and  useful  exposition  of  the  sacred  text.  The  plan  of  the 
work  varied  from  the  usual  order.  After  the  exposition, 
which  was  rather  practical  than  exegetical,  there  followed 
what  he  called  inferences,  and,  last  of  all,  reflections. 

In  1810  appeared  the  first  volume  of  Adam  Clarke's 
magnum  opus,  the  "  Commentary  on  the  Bible,"  a  bequest 
to  the  race.  The  eighth  and  last  volume  was  not  issued 
from  the  press  until  1826.  Concerning  the  preparation 
of  this  work  the  author  says:  "I  have  labored  alone  for 
twenty-five  years  previously  to  the  work  being  sent  to  the 
press,  and  fifteen  years  have  been  employed  in  bringing  it 
through  the  press;  so  that  nearly  forty  years  of  my  life 
have  been  so  consumed."  This  was  one  of  the  greatest  lit- 
erary achievements  of  that  age,  and  it  has  since  become 
the  most  widely  circulated  commentary,  perhaps,  ever 
written.  It  is  permeated  throughout  with  the  living  spirit 
of  our  holy  religion.  By  its  luminous  expositions  of  divine 
truth  it  presents  to  the  masses  a  book  adapted  to  their  in- 
struction, while  to  the  scholar  it  offers  the  mature  fruitage 
of  critical  sagacity  and  philological  learning.  Dr.  Ether- 
idge,  the  scholarly  biographer  of  Dr.  Clarke,  says  that  the 
Commentary  is  "  one  of  the  noblest  works  of  the  class  in 
the  whole  domain  of  sacred  literature.    It  is  a  thesaurus 


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of  general  learning ;  and,  as  the  exposition  of  an  Eastern 
book,  it  abounds,  very  properly,  with  a  great  variety  of 
Oriental  illustrations,  philological,  ethnic,  and  antiqua- 
rian. .  .  .  When  we  consider  that  this  great  under- 
taking was  begun,  continued,  and  ended  by  one  man,  and 
that  man  engaged  in  the  zealous  and  faithful  discharge  of 
so  many  public  duties,  instead  of  reasonably  complaining 
that  here  and  there  it  has  a  blemish,  or  that  its  general 
plan  is  not  in  all  respects  filled  up  as  completely  as  could 
be  desired,  our  wonder  is  rather  excited  that  he  should 
have  brought  it  so  far  as  he  did  toward  perfection.  .  .  . 
The  man  who  accomplished  it  achieved  immortality,  his 
name  having  become  identified  with  an  indestructible  mon- 
ument of  learning  and  religion."  The  last  edition  of  the 
"Encyclopaedia  Britannica"  characterizes  it  as  "a  work 
of  much  learning  and  ability,  and  it  still  possesses  vahie, 
though  it  is  in  great  part  superseded  by  the  results  of  later 
scholarship." 

In  1811-18  the  Rev.  Joseph  Benson  published  his  Com- 
mentary, under  the  direction  and  patronage  of  the  Wes- 
leyan  Methodist  Conference.  It  took  rank  at  once  as  a 
sound  and  learned  exposition  of  Holy  Scripture ;  and,  in 
the  opinion  of  those  competent  to  judge,  this  work  still 
perpetuates  the  usefulness  of  its  author.  The  Rev.  Dr. 
Bunting,  who  stood  for  years  at  the  head  of  Methodism  in 
England,  frequently  and  strongly  expressed  the  high  esti- 
mation in  which  he  held  this  work,  combining,  as  he  said, 
more  largely  than  any  other,  and  in  better  harmony,  all 
the  excellences  of  a  sober  and  thoroughly  Wesleyan  expo- 
sition of  the  sacred  volume.  This  opinion  represents  very 
largely  the  general  estimate  in  which  Benson's  work  is  at 
present  held  by  the  Methodists  of  Great  Britain.  Outside 
the  denomination  the  book  has  met  with  considerable  favor. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Horne,  author  of  the  "Introduction,"  says 
of  it :  "  An  elaborate  and  very  useful  commentary  on  the 
Sacred  Scriptures,  which,  independently  of  its  practical 


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tendency,  possesses  the  merit  of  compressing  into  a  com- 
paratively small  compass  the  substance  of  what  the  piety 
and  learning  of  former  ages  have  advanced,  in  order  to 
facilitate  the  study  of  the  Bible.  Its  late  learned  author 
was  particularly  distinguished  for  his  critical  and  exact 
acquaintance  with  the  Greek  Testament." 

In  1833  was  published  Richard  Watson's  "Exposition 
of  the  Gospels  of  Matthew  and  Mark,  and  of  Some  Other 
Detached  Parts  of  Holy  Scripture."  This  work  was  writ- 
ten during  the  sickness  of  its  author,  was  cut  short  by  his 
lamented  death,  and  published  posthumously,  first  in  Lon- 
don, and  in  1837  in  New  York.  It  is  a  work  of  masterly 
disquisitions,  and  evinces  a  deep  and  comprehensive  knowl- 
edge of  divine  truth.  Dr.  Horne  says:  "The  sole  object 
of  this  learned  and  original  work  is  the  elucidation  of  the 
Scriptures,  and  by  this  means  to  lay  the  foundation  rather 
than  suggest  those  practical  and  pious  uses  to  which  they 
must  be  applied  if  they  make  us  wise  unto  salvation." 
And  another  eminent  critic  of  a  different  communion,  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Williams,  author  of  the  "Christian  Preacher," 
speaks  of  Watson's  exposition  as  "an  admirable  specimen 
of  sacred  interpretation,  replete  with  sound  divinity,  and 
well  adapted  to  promote  the  piety  of  the  reader." 

In  1834  the  Rev.  Joseph  Sutcliffe,  A.  M.,  published  a 
Commentary  on  the  Old  and  New  Testaments,  in  two  vol- 
umes, a  work  abounding  in  reflections  of  the  greatest  unc- 
tion and  beauty.  The  text  of  the  authorized  version  is  not 
given,  and  the  Commentary  is  equally  adapted  for  the  fam- 
ily and  the  study,  embodying,  as  it  does,  the  results  of  the 
author's  labors  for  about  forty  years.  Home  says  of  it: 
"Many  valuable  elucidations  of  difficult  passages  will  be 
found  in  this  work,  which  are  passed  over  in  larger  com- 
mentaries. The  reflections  at  the  end  of  each  chapter  are 
characterized  by  simplicity  of  diction  combined  with  earnest 
piety." 

The  Rev.  Joseph  Roberts  was  sent  as  a  missionary  to 


154  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


the  East  in  1818,  and  remained  there  nearly  fourteen 
years.  In  1835  he  published  "Oriental  Illustrations  of 
the  Sacred  Scriptures,"  collected  from  the  customs,  etc., 
of  the  Hindoos.  This  work  not  only  serves  to  show  the 
truth  of  Scripture,  but  it  is  eminently  adapted  to  the  elu- 
cidation of  its  meaning.  On  its  appearance  the  British 
Critic  declared  it  to  be  "replete  ^\ith  instructive  matter," 
aud  Dr.  Home  said  it  supplied  "a  most  important  desid- 
eratum in  Biblical  literature."  In  1831  the  Rev.  James 
Wood  had  published  a  "  Treatise  on  the  Nature  and  Use 
of  the  Tropes  of  Holy  Scripture." 

In  1840  the  Rev.  George  Cubitt,  for  fourteen  years 
connectional  editor  of  the  Wesleyan  publications,  published 
his  "  Parables,"  and  in  1844  his  "  Scriptural 'Expositions." 
Iii  1863  the  Rev.  W.  J.  Shrewsbury's  "Notes  on  Ezekiel" 
were  published,  edited  by  his  son ;  and  in  1865  appeared 
his  "Notes  on  Daniel  and  the  Minor  Prophets."  In 
1869  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Rule,  D.  D.,  published  an  "Histor- 
ical Exposition  of  the  Book  of  Daniel  the  Prophet,"  and 
in  the  same  year  appeared  the  "Exposition  of  Paul's 
Epistle  to  the  Romans,"  by  H.  W.  Williams,  D.  D.,  who 
also  published,  in  1871,  an  "Exposition  of  the  Epistle  to 
the  Hebrews."  In  1877  the  Rev.  Joseph  A.  Beet  printed 
his  "Commentary  on  the  Romans,"  intended  for  popular 
use,  the  author  being  an  eminent  Wesleyan  scholar. 

The  Methodists  of  England  have  published  numerous 
instructive  and  valuable  works  in  the  department  of  Bible 
dictionaries.  As  early  as  1804  the  Rev.  James  Wood  pub- 
lished his  "  New  Dictionary  of  the  Holy  Bible,"  in  two 
volumes,  which  has  since  passed  through  numerous  editions, 
the  latest  being  published  by  Tegg,  in  1863.  In  1831  the 
Biblical  and  Theological  Dictionary  of  Richard  Watson 
appeared,  a  work  that  reached  its  tenth  edition  in  Eng- 
land in  1850,  and  has  been  republished  in  this  country  at 
the  Methodist  Book  Concern  in  New  York,  and  at  the 
Southern  Methodist  Publishing-houje. 


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The  Rev.  John  Farrar  was  a  voluminous  author  in  the 
line  of  Bible  dictionaries.  In  1844  he  published  his 
"  Proper  Names  of  the  Bible ;"  in  1852,  his  "  Biblical  and 
Theological  Dictionary  ;"  in  1853,  an  "  Ecclesiastical  Dic- 
tionary ;"  in  1857,  "  A  Key  to  the  Pronunciation  of  Scrip- 
ture Names;"  and  in  the  same  year,  "A  Manual  of  Bib- 
lical Geography."  Samuel  Dunn  was  also  the  author  of  a 
"  Dictionary  of  the  Gospels,"  and  James  Creighton  of  a 
"  Dictionary  of  Scripture  Proper  Names."  The  Primitive 
Methodist  Book-room  published,  in  1854,  a  "  Biblical  Die-" 
tionary,"  by  J.  A.  Bastow,  a  member  of  the  Syro-Egyptian 
Society. 

The  American  Methodists  have  emulated  the  example 
of  their  Wesleyan  brethren,  and  have  published  numerous 
valuable  works,  which  invite  and  contribute  to  the  better 
understanding  of  the  divine  Word.  For  a  long  time  they 
relied  almost  exclusively  upon  their  English  republications, 
and  Clarke's  and  Benson's  Commentaries  were  to  be  found 
in  almost  every  Methodist  library,  the  circulation  of  these 
works  being  far  greater  here  than  in  England.  Among 
the  earliest  books  of  an  exegetical  and  practical  nature 
was  Joseph  Longking's  "Notes  on  the  Gospels."  This 
work  was  largely  introduced  into  the  Sunday-schools,  and 
met  the  wants  of  the  Church  at  the  time,  so  far  as  the 
Gospels  were  concerned.  In  1848  the  "  Notes  on  the  Acts 
of  the  Apostles,"  designed  for  Sunday-schools,  Bible-classes, 
and  private  reading,  was  published  by  Rev.  Bradford  K. 
Peirce,  now  editor  of  Zion's  Herald. 

In  1851  the  Rev.  Dr.  McClintock,  in  commenting,  in 
the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review,  on  the  Rev.  Andrew  Car- 
roll's "  Critical  and  Exegetical  Notes  and  Discourses  on 
the  Gospels,"  which  appeared  in  that  year,  said  :  "  A  com- 
mentary upon  the  Scriptures  is  the  great  want  of  our 
Church  in  these  times.  Those  that  we  have,  however  ex- 
cellent they  may  be  in  many  respects,  are  so  far  behind 
the  present  state  of  knowledge,  especially  with  regard  to 


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the  geography  of  Palestine,  as  to  be  useless,  or  even  worse, 
so  far  as  the  illustration  of  Scripture  is  concerned." 

The  next  year  (1852)  appeared  Dr.  James  Strong's 
"New  Harmony  and  Exposition  of  the  Gospels,"  which 
consisted  of  a  parallel  and  combined  arrangement,  on  a 
new  plan,  of  the  narratives  of  the  four  evangelists,  ac- 
cording to  the  authorized  version,  and  a  continuous  com- 
mentary, with  brief  notes  subjoined.  It  also  possessed  a 
supplement,  containing  extended  chronological  and  topo- 
graphical dissertations,  and  a  complete  analytical  index. 
Every  page  gave  evidence  of  unsparing  labor,  and  the  ex- 
positions were  terse,  vigorous,  and  eminently  suggestive. 
The  Quarterly j  which  had  previously  complained  of  the  de- 
fectiveness of  our  commentaries,  now  pronounced  this  book, 
as  a  whole,  an  honor,  not  merely  to  Methodist  denomina- 
tional literature,  but  to  the  Biblical  literature  of  the  age. 
Dr.  Whedon,  in  his  Preface  to  his  Commentary  on  Matthew 
and  Mark,  says  that  several  of  his  most  valuable  illustra- 
tions were  appropriated  from  this  work.  This  was  subse- 
quently abridged,  and  followed,  in  1854,  by  a  Harmony 
of  the  Gospels  in  Greek. 

In  1856  the  Rev.  Dr.  F.  G.  Hibbard  published  at  the 
New  York  Book  Concern  his  "  Psalms  Chronologically 
Arranged,  with  Historical  Introductions,  and  a  General 
Introduction  to  the  Whole  Book."  The  author,  by  the 
learning  and  ability  evinced  in  this  work,  rendered  a  great 
service  to  the  Church.  It  brings  this  part  of  the  Scrip- 
tures before  the  people  in  an  attractive  form,  and  is,  as 
the  author  asserts,  an  attempt  to  place  the  reader  in  ex- 
act sympathy  with  the  author  of  each  Psalm  at  the  time 
of  writing.  Four  years  before  (1852),  the  Book  Concern 
published  Clement  Moody's  "New  Testament  Expounded 
and  Illustrated,  according  to  the  Usual  Marginal  Refer- 
ences, in  the  Very  Words  of  Holy  Scripture,"  together  with 
notes  and  translations,  and  a  complete  marginal  harmony 
of  the  Gospels. 


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In  1860  the  Western  Book  Concern  published  a  Com- 
mentary on  the  New  Testament,  by  Rev.  William  Nast, 
D.  D.,  the  apostle  of  German  Methodism  in  America. 
This  work,  which  first  appeared  in  the  German  language,, 
was  commenced  at  the  instance  of  the  General  Conference 
of  1852,  for  the  use  of  the  German  Methodists.  It  was 
originally  issued  in  numbers,  but  is  now  altogether  fur- 
nished in  bound  volumes.  The  English  translation,  the 
first  volume  of  which  appeared  in  1864,  from  the  pen  of 
the  author,  has  the  following  comprehensive  title:  "A 
Commentary  on  the  Gospels  of  Matthew  and  Mark,  Crit- 
ical, Doctrinal,  and  Homiletical ;  embodying  for  Popular 
Use  and  Edification  the  Results  of  German  and  English 
Exegetical  Literature,  and  designed  to  meet  the  Difficulties 
of  Modern  Skepticism.  With  a  General  Introduction, 
treating  of  the  Genuineness,  Authenticity,  Historic  Verity, 
and  Inspiration  of  the  Gospel  Records,  and  of  the  Har- 
mony and  Chronology  of  the  Gospel  History." 

The  most  considerable  and  scholarly  of  American  Meth- 
odist enterprises  in  this  direction  is  Dr.  Whedon's  Com- 
mentary, the  first  volume  of  which  appeared  in  1860.  The 
project  of  a  brief  commentary  was  first  suggested  to  the 
learned  editor  of  the  Quarterly  Review  by  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Stevens,  the  historian  of  Methodism,  and  at  his  urgent 
request  it  was  undertaken.  Dr.  Whedon  himself  thus  ex- 
plains its  origin  in  his  Preface  to  the  first  volume:  "The 
preparing  of  a  commentary  on  the  New  Testament  was 
first  suggested  to  the  author  in  behalf  of  the  tract  depart- 
ment of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Its  extent  was 
then  limited  to  a  single  volume,  and  its  object  to  the  tract 
circulation.  When,  however,  that  volume  was  completed 
as  far  as  the  Apocalypse,  it  was  on  all  hands  concluded 
that  a  work  of  a  larger  extent  was  more  desirable,  so  as  to 
be  brought  within  the  requisition  of  a  resolution  of  the 
General  Conference  of  1856,  directing  a  commentary  suit- 
able for  general  popular  use  to  be  prepared.    The  task  of 


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reconstructing  was  immediately  commenced,  and  the  pres- 
ent volume  is  thus  far  the  result." 

When  the  second  volume  (on  Luke  and  John)  ap- 
peared in  1866,  the  Bibliotheca  Sacra,  the  judicious  and 
scholarly  Congregational  review,  said:  ''This  Comment- 
ary, not  less  than  the  previous  volume  on  Matthew  and 
Mark,  evinces  the  acuteness  and  perspicacity  of  the  au- 
thor." On  the  appearance  of  the  next  volume  (Acts — 
Eomans),  in  1871,  the  same  authority  said  :  "  Dr.  Whedon 
writes  in  a  perspicuous,  precise,  and  forcible  style.  His 
thoughts  in  this  volume  are  closely  condensed.  His  views 
of  the  Epistle  to  the  Romans,  as  they  are  here  presented, 
are  particularly  deserving  of  study.  He  must  have  made 
special  exertion  to  crowd  so  much  matter  in  so  brief  a 
space."  In  1875  this  volume  was  translated  into  the  Hin- 
dustani language  by  Rev.  T.  J.  Scott,  D.  D.,  and  pub- 
lished by  the  American  Methodist  Mission  press.  When 
the  fourth  volume  (Corinthians — 2  Timothy)  was  pub- 
lished, the  Canadian  Methodist  Magazine  said:  "By  this 
invaluable  Commentary  on  the  New  Testament,  Dr.  Whe- 
don worthily  crowns  the  labors  of  a  useful  life.  He  brings 
to  his  task  a  ripe  scholarship,  a  cultured  critical  faculty, 
and  a  keen  insight  into  the  meaning  of  sacred  truth.  The 
present  volume  is  every  way  worthy  of  its  predecessors, 
which  have  already  achieved  so  distinguished  a  reputation 
both  in  the  Old  World  and  the  New."  The  fifth  volume  is 
from  Titus  to  Revelation. 

In  the  meantime  the  idea  of  the  work  expanded  into  a 
Commentary  on  the  entire  Bible,  and  Dr.  Whedon  called 
to  his  assistance  several  of  the  most  erudite  men  of  the 
Church  to  aid  him  in  its  further  prosecution.  When  Joseph 
Benson  was  appointed  editor  of  the  connectional  publica- 
tions in  London,  he  was  allowed  three  assistants  in  his 
office,  so  that  he  might  pursue  the  preparation  of  his  Com- 
mentary with  as  little  interruption  as  possible.  But  Dr. 
Whedon,  having  the  care  and  editorship  of  the  Quarterly 


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Review,  besides  the  editing  of  the  denominational  publica- 
tions at  New  York,  had  prepared  the  whole  of  the  New 
Testament  Commentary  alone,  with  the  single  exception  of 
the  Notes  on  Philippians  and  Colossians,  which  were  fur- 
nished by  his  nephew,  the  Kev.  D.  A.  Whedon,  D.  D.,  and 
was  henceforth  to  occupy  more  the  position  of  an  editor 
than  an  author. 

The  first  two  volumes  on  the  Old  Testament  have  not, 
as  yet,  appeared.  One  of  these,  on  Genesis  and  Exodus, 
will  be  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  F.  H.  Newhall ;  the  remainder 
of  the  Pentateuch  is  in  the  hands  of  Drs.  Newhall,  Steele, 
and  Lindsay.  The  third  volume  includes  Joshua,  from 
the  pen  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Steele,  and  the  Books  of  Judges 
to  Second  Samuel  by  Kev.  M.  S.  Terry,  D.  D.  Volume 
fourth,  from  Kings  to  Esther,  is  also  by  Dr.  Terry ;  and 
the  fifth  volume,  on  the  Psalms,  is  by  Rev.  F.  G.  Hib- 
bard,  D.  D.  This  is  an  entirely  different  work  from  the 
"  Psalms  Chronologically  Arranged."  The  sixth  volume 
includes  Job,  by  the  Rev.  J.  K.  Burr,  D.  D.  ;  Proverbs, 
by  the  Rev.  William  Hunter,  D.  D.  ;  and  Ecclesiastes  and 
Song  of  Solomon,  by  Rev.  A.  B.  Hyde,  D.  D.  The  re- 
mainder of  the  book  is  in  the  hands  of  able  and  learned 
expositors,  one  of  whom,  the  Rev.  J.  Horner,  D.  D.,  who 
is  to  write  on  Daniel  and  the  Minor  Prophets,  is  known  to 
be  one  of  the  most  scholarly  and  critical  writers  of  the 
Church.  When  completed,  this  Commentary  will  form  a 
repertory  of  the  latest  and  most  thorough  scholarship, 
fully  abreast  of  the  demands  of  the  age,  and  will  doubtless 
amply  justify  the  declaration  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist 
Magazine,  of  London,  when  it  says:  "Of  the  numerous 
popular  and  portable  commentaries  which  have  appeared, 
this  is  undoubtedly  the  best." 

In  1876  Dr.  Henry  A.  Buttz,  now  president  of  Drew 
Theological  Seminary,  published  the  "Epistle  to  the  Ro- 
mans in  Greek,"  in  which  the  text  of  Robert  Stephens, 
third  edition,  is  compared  with  the  texts  of  the  Elzevirs, 


160  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


Lachmann,  Alford,  Tregelles,  Tischendorf,  and  Westcott, 
and  with  the  chief  uncial  and  cursive  manuscripts.  On 
this  work  the  editor  of  the  Quarterly  Review  made  these 
interesting  observations  :  "  This,  the  first-fruits  of  Professor 
Buttz's  scholarly  labors  in  New  Testament  Greek,  is  also 
the  first  production  of  a  Greek  text  from  any  of  our  three 
leading  theological  seminaries,  and  the  first  specimen  of  a 
Greek  book  ever,  we  believe,  issued  from  a  Methodist 
press  in  England  or  America.  It  is  a  noble,  if  not  a  large, 
commencement."  It  is  also  published  by  the  Book  Con- 
cern in  an  interleaved  edition. 

In  1878  the  Methodist  Book  Concerns  published  "The 
People's  Commentary,"  including  brief  notes  on  the  New 
Testament,  with  copious  references.  The  National  Reposi- 
tory characterized  it  as  a  "  very  concise,  very  clear,  and  truly 
evangelical  Commentary."  The  author,  the  Rev.  Amos 
Binney,  of  the  Providence  Conference,  had  previously  pub- 
lished a  "Theological  Compend,"  a  work  which  has  had 
an  extensive  circulation,  reaching  in  its  old  edition  to  over 
forty  thousand,  and  has  also  been  translated  into  Urdu, 
Chinese,  German,  Swedish,  Arabic,  and  other  languages. 
A  new  and  improved  edition,  with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Steele  as 
co-author,  appeared  in  1875. 

The  Methodist  Book  Agents  at  New  York  announced, 
several  years  ago,  their  purpose  to  issue  in  original  treat- 
ises a  comprehensive  "  Library  of  Theological  and  Biblical 
Literature,"  under  the  editorial  supervision  of  Drs.  Crooks 
and  Hurst,  to  which,  beside  the  editors,  who  also  under- 
take a  part  of  the  work,  Dr.  Harman,  of  Dickinson  Col- 
lege ;  Dr.  Bannister,  of  Garrett  Biblical  Institute ;  Drs. 
Bennett,  of  Syracuse,  and  Whitney,  of  Hackettstown  (con- 
jointly) ;  Bishop  Foster  (two  volumes) ;  Dr.  Ridgaway  and 
Dr.  "Winchell,  were  to  contribute  each  a  treatise  on  his  des- 
ignated subject  or  department.  The  first  volume,  Dr.  Har- 
man's  "  Introduction  to  the  Study  of  the  Holy  Scriptures," 
appeared  in  1879.    This  work  is  not  a  compilation,  but  a 


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composition.  Its  matter,  in  its  entirety,  has  passed  through 
the  author's  mind,  and  so  become  his  own,  thus  securing 
its  originality  and  freshness,  and  rendering  all  its  parts 
harmonious  among  themselves.  "  The  vast  and  varied 
erudition  which  he  brings  to  his  task  makes  him  master 
of  the  situation,  while  his  indomitable  patience  and  per- 
severance never  tire  in  exposing  error  and  in  tracking 
truth  to  its  source." 

Methodist  authors  have  in  a  number  of  instances  ren- 
dered material  help  in  the  publication  of  commentaries 
with  which  the  Church  has  not  been  connected.  In  the 
preparation  of  Dr.  SchafF's  "  Popular  Commentary  on  the 
New  Testament"  (Edinburgh,  1879),  Drs.  Pope  and  Moul- 
ton,  of  the  English  Wesleyan  Church,  had  committed  to 
their  joint  labors  the  epistles  of  John,  and  Dr.  Moulton, 
in  connection  with  Professor  Milligan,  had  charge  of  Rev- 
elation. In  Lange's  Commentary  (1864)  Bishop  Hurst 
translated  the  Epistle  to  the  Romans,  on  which  the  labors 
of  both  editors  and  translator  were  very  great.  "  Upon 
no  other  book,"  says  Dr.  Schaff,  "  except  Matthew  and 
Genesis,  has  so  much  original  labor  been  bestowed."  In 
that  Commentary,  also,  Dr.  Strong  translated  the  Book 
of  Esther.  He  translated  the  frequent  Latin  citations, 
added  the  textual  and  grammatical  notes,  enlarged  the  list 
of  exegetical  helps,  and  furnished  an  excursus  of  the 
apocryphal  additions  to  Esther,  and  another  on  the  use  of 
the  book  among  the  Jews. 

In  the  department  of  Biblical  dictionaries  and  hand- 
books on  Bible  instruction  the  issues  from  the  Methodist 
press  have  been  numerous,  and  a  few  only  can  be  noticed. 
Rev.  James  Covel's  "  Bible  Dictionary"  appeared  in  1839; 
a  Concordance  was  published  by  Rev.  George  Coles  in 
1847;  Dr.  Hibbard's  "  Palestine,  its  Geography  and  Bible 
History,"  in  1851 ;  the  Rev.  Dr.  Akers'  Chronology  in 
1855,  and  C.  Munger's  book  on  the  same  subject  at  a  later 
period  ;  Dr.  Buck's  ' 1  Closing  Scenes  in  the  Life  of  Christ," 

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162  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


being  a  harmonized  combination  of  the  four  Gospel  histo- 
ries of  the  last  year  of  the  Savior's  life,  in  1869  ;  Holli- 
day's  Bible  "Hand-book,"  in  the  same  year;  Whitney's 
"  Hand-book  of  Bible  Geography,"  in  1871 ;  and  Dr.  J.  M. 
Freeman's  "  Hand-book  of  Bible  Manners  and  Customs,"  a 
scholarly  and  exhaustive  work. 

The  most  thorough  and  extensive  of  modern  works  of 
this  kind — McClintock  and  Strong's  "Biblical,  Ecclesias- 
tical, and  Theological  Cyclopaedia  " — though  not  a  distinc- 
tive Methodist  publication,  was  issued  under  the  direction 
of  Methodist  editors.  The  work  was  commenced  in  1853. 
From  that  time  the  editors  were  engaged,  with  the  aid  of 
several  regular  collaborators  and  of  numerous  contributors 
of  special  articles,  in  its  preparation.  The  aim  of  the 
work,  the  editors  say,  is  to  furnish  a  book  of  reference  on 
all  the  topics  of  the  science  of  theology,  in  its  widest 
sense,  under  one  alphabet.  There  is  no  dictionary  in  the 
Euglish  language  which  seeks  to  cover  the  same  ground, 
except  upon  a  comparatively  small  scale.  For  the  treat- 
ment of  all  the  topics  in  systematic,  historical,  and  prac- 
tical theology,  Dr.  McClintock  was  responsible.  But  his 
death  occurred  previous  to  the  publication  of  the  fourth 
volume  in  1872 ;  yet  he  left  numerous  articles,  which  were 
used  by  Dr.  Strong  as  far  as  they  were  practicable.  The 
first  volume  was  issued  from  the  press  of  Harper  and 
Brothers  in  1867,  and  the  tenth  volume,  completing  the 
alphabet,  in  1881.  A  supplement  is  to  follow.  This  work 
is  not  only  a  Bible  dictionary,  but  a  universal  reference- 
book  on  all  subjects  of  religious  interest.  On  the  appear- 
ance of  the  second  volume  the  Bibliotheca  Sacra  said  : 
"  Although  this  work  is  published  under  the  patronage  of 
the  Methodist  denomination,  it  is  by  no  means  a  sectarian 
cyclopaedia.  It  is  instructive  to  scholars  of  all  denomina- 
tions. Many  of  its  articles  are  written  with  great  care, 
and  evince  a  multifarious  scholarship." 

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minor  books,  which  have  been  successfully  employed  as 
aids  in  the  study  of  the  Bible.  Among  these  are  his 
"Pictorial  Bible  Geography"  and  "Berean  Lessons,"  to 
the  latter  of  which  must  be  ascribed  much  of  the  impulse 
to  the  modern  study  of  the  Bible  in  Methodist  Sunday- 
schools.  To  him,  also,  are  we  indebted  for  the  germinal 
concept  which  resulted  in  the  adoption  of  the  uniform 
international  lesson  system,  an  arrangement  that  gives  us 
regularly,  in  almost  every  species  of  periodical,  whole  col- 
umns of  Scriptural  commentaries  and  religious  instruction, 
a  system  that  finds  its  culmination  in  the  development  of 
the  ''Chautauqua  idea,"  which  seeks  as  its  object  the  uni- 
versal diffusion  of  a  wholesome  literature,  a  God-enthroned 
science,  and  a  pure,  sound,  and  stalwart  evangelism. 

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XII. 

THEOLOGICAL  AND  DOCTRINAL  LITER- 
ATURE. 

Methodism  claims  to  be  a  faithful  teacher  of  the  whole 
compass  of  theological  science.  As  has  been  shown  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Rigg,  in  the  London  Quarterly  Beview,  it  has  its 
system  of  theology  complete  in  all  its  parts,  basing  its  ex- 
istence and  its  work  in  the  world,  not  upon  any  one  or  two 
specific  doctrines,  but  upon  the  one  broad  foundation  of 
Christian  truth.  Methodism,  whether  in  England  and  her 
dominions  or  in  America,  has  never  given  birth  to  a  her- 
esy; her  annual  conferences  in  various  parts  of  the  world 
exhibit  the  spectacle  of  thousands  of  pastors  who  are  of 
one  accord  and  of  one  mind  as  to  the  fundamental  doctrines 
of  Christianity. 

But  there  are  doctrines  which  she  has  specially  empha- 
sized ;  and  the  extent  of  their  influence  on  the  success 
which  has  attended  Methodist  preaching  has  been  a  matter 
of  grave  speculation  among  many  thoughtful  and  philo- 
sophic observers  of  moral  and  mental  developments  be- 
yond her  pale.  A  few  of  these  authorities  we  refer  to. 
In  the  North  American  Review  for  January,  1876,  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Diman,  a  professor  in  Brown  University,  thus  accounts 
for  what  he  calls  "  the  enormous  growth  of  Methodism"  in 
this  country:  "The  vital  power  of  Methodism  must  be 
sought,  not  in  its  form,  but  in  its  spirit.  It  is  impossible 
to  account  for  its  rapid  growth  save  on  the  hypothesis  that 
it  met  a  great  popular  want.  And  it  is  equally  impossible 
not  to  recognize  the  fact  that  this  adaptation  lay  in  the 
sharp  contrast  which  it  presented  to  the  prevailing  faith. 


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Tbe  immense  popular  influence  of  Methodism  lay  in  its 
bold  appeal  from  'the  theology  of  the  intellect'  to  'the 
theology  of  the  feelings.'  Calvinism,  throughout  all  its 
camps,  '  lay  intrenched  in  the  outworks  of  the  under- 
standing;' but  to  souls  sated  with  theological  formulas 
Methodism,  with  its  direct  intuitions  of  divine  truth,  came 
like  springs  of  water  in  a  dry  and  thirsty  land." 

In  a  notice  of  a  sermon  preached  before  the  Old-school 
Presbyterian  Assembly  in  1851,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hum- 
phrey, the  New  Englander  for  January,  1852,  says^that 
Dr.  Humphrey  thus  accounts  for  the  growth  of  Method- 
ism :  "It  might  be  clearly  shown,  as  I  humbly  conceive, 
that  its  past  success  is  to  be  referred,  not  to  those  doc- 
trines which  are  peculiar  to  itself,  but  to  those  which  are 
common  to  both  theologies."  Whereupon  the  reviewer 
remarks:  "But  will  Dr.  Humphrey  deny  that  one  of 
the  chief  causes  of  the  spread  of  Methodism  is  the  an- 
tagonism of  its  preachers  to  a  notion  of  predestination, 
which  served  in  the  popular  mind  to  cast  doubt  on  the 
sincerity  of  God  in  the  Gospel  invitations?  Is  not  their 
success  very  much  due  to  the  emphasis  with  which  they 
have  insisted  on  the  truth  of  God's  unwillingness  that  any 
should  perish — on  the  truth  that  none  who  will  seek  God 
are  cut  off  from  the  hope  of  salvation,  and  that  all  may 
seek  him  ;  nay,  that  all  are  commanded  and  entreated  to 
do  so?  The  vitality  of  Methodism  sprang  from  its  asser- 
tion of  these  truths  of  the  Gospel.  So  far,  its  power  is 
the  power  of  the  Gospel." 

The  British  Quarterly  for  August,  1852,  in  discussing 
this  subject,  says:  "Methodism  was  evidently  a  reaction 
against  the  influence  and  authority  of  the  high-and-dry 
people  in  the  established  Church.  It  seized  on  the  ortho- 
dox doctrines ;  but  it  did  so  that  they  might  be  made  to 
produce  their  proper  spiritual  fruit.  The  Methodist  ele- 
ment soon  diffused  itself  freely  through  other  religious 
bodies.    The  pulpits  both  of  the  established  Church  and 


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of  the  Nonconformists  came  very  perceptibly  under  its  in- 
fluence.' The  Contemporary  Review  for  Januar)r,  1880,  in 
an  article  by  Hillebrand  on  "  T.  e  Eighteenth  Century," 
makes  this  influence  greater,  perhaps,  than  is  claimed  by 
Methodist  writers  themselves.  He  asserts  that  "the  High 
and  Low  Church  of  to-day  are  the  outgrowth  respectively 
of  the  Wesleyan  movement,  of  the  last  century,"  and  adds : 
"  Wesleyanism  as  a  historical  fact  was  abundantly  fruitful. 
It  gave  new  life  to  the  State  Church,  roused  it  to  resist- 
ance, and  discovered  to  it  its  own  weak  points." 

At  first  the  influence  of  these  doctrines  was  not  recog- 
nized and  admitted  by  the  higher  literary  and  ecclesias- 
tical authorities  of  England  ;  but  in  later  times  due  credit, 
in  many  instances,  has  been  awarded  to  the  Wesleys  and 
their  coadjutors  even  by  those  who  do  not  adopt  their 
theological  views.  The  Westminster  Review,  long  in  reach- 
ing its  conclusions,  in  its  issue  for  January,  1851,  in  speak- 
ing of  Wesley,  gives  utterance  to  the  following:  "The 
sequel  is  well  known :  how  he  took  up  the  labors,  while 
others  boasted  of  the  privileges,  of  apostleship;  civilized 
whole  counties ;  lifted  brutal  populations  into  communities 
of  orderly  citizens  and  consistent  Christians  ;  and  in  gran- 
deur of  missionary  achievement  rivaled  the  most  splendid 
successes  of  Christendom."  In  speaking  of  the  influence 
of  Wesleyan  doctrines  on  Devon  and  Cornwall,  the  wildest 
and  most  ferocious  people  of  England  in  Wesley's  time, 
the  Edinburgh  Review  of  the  same  date  as  the  one  just 
quoted  said:  "No  partiality  for  old-world  investigations, 
no  distrust  of  the  self-opinion  of  modern  times,  will  tempt 
us  to  affirm  that  the  history  of  former  ages  affords  any 
thing  comparable  to  the  phenomena  of  an  existing  society 
such  as  this,  the  last  achievement  of  political  progress." 
And  Lord  Mahon,  afterward  Earl  Stanhope,  in  his  History 
of  England,  in  speaking  of  the  improved  character  and 
usefulness  of  the  Anglican  Church,  says:  "Nor  let  any 
false  shame  hinder  us  from  owning  that,  though  other 


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167 


causes  were  at  work,  it  is  to  the  Methodists  that  great  part 
of  the  merit  is  clue." 

It  has  been  said  that  the  doctrines  of  the  founder  of 
Methodism  were  drawn  from  Scripture,  and  that  to  it  every 
article  of  the  Methodist  creed  points  and  submits.  Among 
the  earliest  of  the  controversies  that  Wesley  participated 
in  was  that  in  reference  to  the  doctrine  of  predestination. 
In  this  he  was  long  and  earnestly  engaged.  The  secession 
of  Mr.  Whitefield  from  Arminianism  to  Calvinism  gave 
rise  to  the  controversy,  and  the  war  was  begun  by  Mr. 
Wesley  preaching,  and  afterward  printing,  his  remarkable 
sermon  on  Free  Grace,  at  Bristol,  in  1740.  In  this  publi- 
cation he  declares  that  he  abhors  the  doctrine  of  predesti- 
nation. To  this  sermon  Mr.  Whitefield  replied,  and  the 
polemic  war  was  thereafter  waged  for  fifty  years.  Mr. 
Wesley's  next  publication  on  the  subject  was,  ' 4  Predestina- 
tion Calmly  Considered ;"  and  this  was  followed,  among 
others,  by  "  Serious  Thoughts  on  the  Perseverance  of  the 
Saints,"  "  What  is  an  Arminian?"  "Thoughts  upon  God's 
Sovereignty,"  "  Some  Remarks  on  Mr.  Hill's  Review  of  all 
the  Doctrines  Taught  by  Mr.  John  Wesley"  (1772),  and 
"Some  Remarks  on  Mr.  Hill's  Farrago  Double  Distilled" 
(1773). 

Mr.  Wesley  wrote  on  all  the  doctrines  of  the  Bible, 
and  more  particularly  on  those  distinctive  doctrines  of 
Methodism  which  were  assailed  by  the  theology  of  the 
period.  The  list  of  the  separate  publications  of  John  and 
Charles  Wesley  occupies  sixty  pages  of  Osborn's  "  Wes- 
leyan  Bibliography,"  and  can  not,  of  course,  be  recorded 
here.  The  principal  works  of  John  Wesley  on  practical 
divinity,  however,  may  be  mentioned  as:  1.  "An  Address 
to  the  Clergy"  (1756)  ;  2.  "  A  Plain  Account  of  Christian 
Perfection"  (1777)  ;  3.  "An  Earnest  Appeal  to  Men  of 
Reason  and  Religion"  (1744);  4.  "A  Further  Appeal  to 
Men  of  Reason  and  Religion"  (1745);  and,  5.  His  Ser- 
mons (one  hundred  and  forty -one  in  number). 


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John  Fletcher's  works  were  principally  directed  against 
Antinomianism  and  Calvinism,  and  stand  to-day  unanswered 
and  unanswerable.  They  justify  the  remark  that  "  Method- 
ism has  been  the  standing  advocate  of  the  doctrine  of  free- 
will as  a  subjective  and  immutable  attribute  of  the  human 
soul."  His  works  were  originally  published  in  eight  volumes 
in  1803,  but  newr  editions  have  frequently  since  appeared. 
The  Christian  Preaelier  (English  publication)  says  that 
"his  works  contain  an  unanswerable  defense  of  the  doc- 
trine of  original  sin  and  of  the  Godhead  of  Christ,  several 
pieces  in  vindication  of  general  redemption  and  other 
points  with  wrhich  it  is  connected,  and  are  distinguished 
by  uncommon  clearness  and  strength  of  argument." 

Besides  the  works  of  Dr.  Adam  Clarke,  Bishop  Coke, 
Richard  Watson,  Joseph  Benson,  and  others,  all  of  wThom 
entered  con  amove  into  the  Calvinistic  discussion,  in  1817 
the  Rev.  Edward  Hare  published  three  works  of  a  contro- 
versial nature,  namely:  "A  Preservative  against  the 
Errors  of  Socinianism,"  "A  Caveat  against  Antinomian- 
ism," and  a  "  Treatise  on  Justification."  In  1824  appeared 
Nicholls's  "Calvinism  and  Arminianism  Compared."  The 
controversy  was  carried  to  this  side  the  Atlantic,  where 
Calvinism  had  deeply  intrenched  itself,  and  where,  per- 
haps, Mr.  Whitefield's  preaching  had  largely  served  to 
confirm  its  teachings.  In  the  Eastern  States  Dr.  Wilbur 
Eisk  entered  into  the  conflict  with  all  the  wealth  of  his 
noble  intellect,  and  became  an  heroic  and  able  defender 
of  Arminianism.  In  1837  he  published  "The  Calvinistic 
Controversy,"  and  at  another  date  his  "  Reply  to  Pierpont 
on  the  Atonement."  He  had  been  preceded  by  Dr.  Nathan 
Bangs,  who,  as  early  as  1809,  began  his  career  as  an  au- 
thor by  a  volume  against  "  Christianism,"  an  heretical  sect 
of  ISTew  England.  In  1815  he  published  his  "Errors  of 
Hopkinsianism,"  in  1817  his  "Predestination  Examined," 
and  subsequently  a  "Life  of  Arminius"  (1843). 

In  the  Middle  States  the  Rev.  Francis  Hodgson,  D.  D., 


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entered  the  controversy  by  publishing  his  "New  System 
of  Divinity  Examined,"  and  subsequently,  in  1855,  "The 
Calvinistic  Doctrine  of  Predestination  Examined  and  Re- 
futed." In  1813  the  Rev.  Asa  Shinn,  a  controversial 
writer  of  considerable  power,  published  his  "Essay  on  the 
Plan  of  Salvation"  (republished  in  1831),  and  in  1840  his 
"  Benevolence  and  Rectitude  of  the  Supreme  Being." 
Bishop  Foster  also  published  "Objections  to  Calvinism  as 
It  Is."  In  the  South,  where  the  doctrinal  differences  re- 
lated chiefly  to  other  phases  of  theology,  the  pulpit  gave 
forth  no  uncertain  sound  on  the  subject,  and  the  press  sent 
forth  such  works  as  Dr.  L.  M.  Lee's  "  Great  Supper  not 
Calvinistic,"  "Methodism  and  Calvinism  Compared,"  by 
Rev.  C.  Collins,  D.  D.,  and  Rev.  J.  E.  Cobb's  "  Philoso- 
ophy  of  Faith"  (1853),  which  treats  rather  of  the  nature, 
fruits,  and  relations  of  faith. 

In  1853  there  was  published  at  the  Methodist  Book 
Concern  at  New  York,  a  work  written  by  Dr.  Albert  T. 
Bledsoe.  It  was  entitled,  "A  Theodicy;  or,  Vindication 
of  the  Divine  Glory  as  Manifested  in  the  Constitution  and 
Government  of  the  Moral  World."  It  was  divided  into 
two  parts,  the  first  showing  that  the  existence  of  moral 
evil  is  consistent  with  the  holiness  of  God,  and  the  second 
that  the  existence  of  natural  evil,  or  suffering,  is  consist- 
ent with  the  goodness  of  God.  At  the  time  of  its  appear- 
ance the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review,  then  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Dr.  McClintock,  commended  it  "as  one  of  the 
clearest  and  ablest  expositions  of  the  moral  government 
of  God  that  has  ever  appeared."  Seven  years  later,  Dr. 
Whedon,  who  had  in  the  meantime  succeeded  to  the  edit- 
orship of  the  Quarterly  Review,  in  noticing  an  article  in  the 
New  Englander  reviewing  Dr.  Taylor  on  Moral  Govern- 
ment, in  which  Dr.  Bledsoe  is  said  to  sympathize  with 
the  views  of  Mr.  Wesley,  says:  "As  to  Mr.  Bledsoe,  he 
'  sympathizes  with  Wesley'  just  so  far  as  he  agrees  with 
Wesley,  and  no  further ;  but,  agreeing  or  not,  he  is  no 

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Wesleyan  authority."  AdcI  Dr.  Curry,  in  an  article  in  the 
Methodist  Quarterly  Review  for  April,  1854  :  "  The  fact  that 
this  volume  [Bledsoe's  Theodicy]  bears  the  imprint  of  the 
principal  Arminian  publishing-house  of  the  country  may 
lead  some  to  suspect  that  it  is  but  a  re-statement,  in  a 
new  form  perhaps,  of  that  side  of  the  interminable  contro- 
versy of  the  1  Five  Points.'  Such  a  conclusion,  however, 
would  be  not  only  premature,  but  unjust  to  both  the  au- 
thor and  the  publishers ;  for  while  he  holds  himself  quite 
independent  of  all  previous  systems,  whether  theological  or 
philosophical,  the  publishers  are  not  to  be  held  accountable 
for  the  opinions  he  advances."  In  1845  Dr.  Bledsoe  pub- 
lished his  "Examination  of  President  Edwards's  Inquiry 
into  the  Freedom  of  the  Will,"  which  is  "  a  full,  direct, 
and  incontrovertible  refutation." 

In  18G4  the  Rev.  Dr.  Whedon,  editor  of  the  Methodic 
Quarterly  Review,  published  his  "Freedom  of  the  Will  as 
a  Basis  of  Human  Responsibility,"  etc.  From  the  well- 
known  ability  of  the  author,  but  more  especially  from  the 
character  of  the  book  itself,  it  was  at  once  accepted  as  a 
standard  authority,  which  rank  it  is  likely  to  maintain. 
Dr.  Whedon  has  also  written  able  and  elaborate  articles 
on  the  Calvinistic  controversy,  contributing  to  the  Biblio- 
theca  Sacra  a  discriminating  and  scholarly  paper  on  "The 
Doctrines  of  Methodism,"  and  is  the  author  of  the  article 
on  "  Arminianism"  in  Johnson's  Cyclopedia,  from  which 
the  following  extract  is  taken  :  "  Arminian  Methodism  has, 
in  little  more  than  a  century  of  her  existence,  apparently 
demonstrated  that  the  Augustinian  'systematic  theology* 
is  unnecessary,  and  what  it  deems  the  primitive  theology 
amply  sufficient  for  a  production  of  a  profound  depth  of 
piety,  a  free  ecclesiastical  system,  an  energetic  missionary 
enterprise,  and  a  rapid  evangelical  success.  .  .  .  The 
problems  she  has  thus  wrought  suggest  the  thought  that 
the  free,  simple  theology  of  the  earliest  age  may  be  the 
universal  theology  of  the  latest." 


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In  1853  the  "  Complete  Works  of  James  Arminius, 
D.  D.,"  were  published  by  Derby,  Orton,  and  Mulligan, 
partly  from  Nichols's  translation,  and  partly  in  a  new 
translation  by  the  Rev.  W.  R.  Bagnall,  A.  M.,  of  the  New 
England  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
The  Methodist  Quarterly  Review  said  of  these  three  volumes: 
"  Our  denomination,  whose  creed  accords  so  completely 
with  the  teachings  of  this  learned  and  accomplished  and 
holy  man  is  bound  to  maintain  the  freshness  of  his  precious 
memory."  "The  Reformation  needed  to  be  reformed,  and 
that  work  was  performed  by  James  Arminius  doctrinally, 
and  by  John  Wesley  spiritually." 

Of  the  larger  systematic  works  on  Methodist  theology 
the  first  place  is  accorded  to  Watson's  "Theological  Insti- 
stutes."  They  originally  appeared  in  1824,  and  have  been 
since  issued  in  many  editions.  They  are,  says  Dr.  Ste- 
vens, "  an  elaborate  body  of  divinity,  and  have  elevated 
the  theological  character  of  Methodism,  which  has  every- 
where recognized  them  as  standards  in  its  ministerial  course 
of  study."  The  elder  Hodge  speaks  of  this  work  as  "ex- 
cellent, and  well  worthy  of  its  high  repute  among  Meth- 
odists." In  1852  Dr.  John  Brown,  of  Edinburgh,  charac- 
terized Watson  as  "a  prince  in  theology,  and  the  'Insti- 
tutes' as  the  noblest  work  in  Methodism,  and  truly  valu- 
able." Drs.  Bangs  and  Cocker  reviewed  the  apologetics 
of  the  "Institutes"  in  the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review,  which 
called  forth  Levington's  "  Watson's  Theological  Institutes 
Defended"  (1863).  Dr.  McClintock  prepared  an  elaborate 
"Analysis"  of  the  "Institutes." 

In  1847  appeared  the  "Elements  of  Divinity;  or,  A 
Course  of  Lectures  comprising  a  Clear  and  Concise  View 
of  the  System  of  Theology  as  Taught  in  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures," by  Thomas  N.  Ralston,  D.  D.  The  author  says 
that  the  design  of  the  work  is  to  present  a  clear  and  com- 
prehensive outline  of  the  general  system  of  Bible  theology 
in  a  smaller  compass  and  a  form  less  intricate  and  per- 


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plexing  to  private  members,  young  ministers,  and  students 
in  divinity  than  the  more  critical  and  voluminous  works 
heretofore  published  on  the  subject  admit. 

In  1853  the  Rev.  Asbury  Lowrey  published  his  "Pos- 
itive Theology  :  being  a  Series  of  Dissertations  on  the 
Fundamental  Doctrines  of  the  Bible."  This  work,  also, 
was  designed  to  set  forth  the  leading  doctrines  of  Chris- 
tianity in  plain  and  untechnical  language. 

In  1853  the  Rev.  Luther  Lee,  D.  D.,  then  a  minister 
of  the  American  Wesleyans,  published  his  "Elements  of 
Theology,"  and  five  years  later  appeared  £<  A  Complete  Sys- 
tem of  Christian  Theology ;  or,  A  Concise,  Comprehensive, 
and  Systematic  View  of  the  Evidences,  Doctrines,  Morals, 
and  Institutions  of  Christianity,"  by  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Wakefield,  D.  D.  This  work  has  since  been  republished 
in  a  somewhat  altered  edition,  and  can  justly  lay  claim  to 
the  praise  accorded  it  by  the  Methodist  Quarterly  Review, 
which  said:  "As  a  whole,  as  to  the  main  outlines  of  our 
Arminian  Christian  theology,  we  know  of  no  work  which 
can  be  pronounced  better  than  the  volume  before  us." 

In  1874  the  Rev.  Dr.  L.  T.  Townsend,  of  the  Boston 
Theological  Seminary,  issued  his  "Outlines  of  Theology," 
the  first  part  treating  of  general,  and  the  second  of  Chris- 
tian, theology.  Dr.  Townsend  is  the  author  also  of 
"Credo"  (1869),  "The  Controversy  between  True  and 
Pretended  Christianity"  (1869),  "God-Man"  (1872),  and 
"Lost  Forever"  (1875). 

In  1875  appeared  "A  Compendium  of  Christian  The- 
ology, being  Analytical  Outlines  of  a  Course  of  Theolog- 
ical Study,  Biblical,  Dogmatic,  Historical,"  by  ~\V.  B. 
Pope,  D.  D.,  theological  tutor  in  Didsbury  College,  Man- 
chester;  and  two  years  afterward  was  published  "System- 
atic Theology,"  by  Miner  Raymond,  D.  D.,  professor  in 
Garrett  Biblical  Institute.  Both  these  works  at  once  took 
high  ground  as  theological  standards,  and  have  been  incor- 
porated into  the  ministerial  course  of  study.  McClintock 


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and  Strong's  Cyclopaedia,  in  referring  to  Watson's  "Insti- 
tutes," says:  "Although  the  works  of  Professors  Pope  and 
Raymond  fill  a  niche  in  the  temple  of  more  recent  litera- 
ture which,  of  course,  the  'Institutes'  can  not  fill,  the  lat- 
ter work  can  never  be  superseded."  R.  Treffry,  Jr.,  issued 
his  "Lectures  on  the  Evidences  of  Christianity"  in  1839; 
in  1872  the  Rev.  Edward  Thomson,  D.  D.,  his  work  on 
the  "  Evidences  of  Revealed  Religion,"  and  in  1880'  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Curry  his  "  Fragments,  Religious  and  Theolog- 
ical." In  1848  William  Cooke,  of  the  English  Wesleyan 
New  Connection,  sent  forth  his  "  Christian  Theology  Ex- 
plained and  Defended,"  and  afterward  his  "  Theiotes,"  an 
antidote  to  Atheism,  Pantheism,  Unitarianism,  etc.  The 
Rev.  B.  F.  Cocker,  D.  D.,  was  the  author  of  "Lectures 
on  the  Truth  of  the  Christian  Religion,"  published  in  1873. 
They  were  originally  delivered  before  the  students  of  the 
Michigan  University,  the  author  filling  the  chair  of  men- 
tal and  moral  philosophy.  He  was  the  author,  also,  of 
"  Christianity  and  Greek  Philosophy  "  (1870),  of  the  "  The- 
istic  Conception  of  the  World,"  and  of  several  other  valua- 
ble works.  In  1869  John  Locke,  English  Wesleyan,  pub- 
lished "A  System  of  Theology."  Dr.  Adam  Clarke  was 
author-  of  a  work  on  "  Christian  Theology;"  Dr.  Hurst,  of 
a  work  entitled  "  Our  Theological  Century,"  and  Dr.  John 
Hannah,  "Lectures  on  the  Study  of  Christian  Theology." 

The  doctrine  of  the  atonement  has  been  a  source  of 
great  controversy,  the  Methodist  Church  having  combated 
from  the  beginning  the  limitedness  assigned  to  it  by  Cal- 
vinistic  denominations.  In  1848  the  Rev.  George  W. 
Clarke  published  a  work  entitled,  "  Christ  Crucified  ;  or, 
A  Plain  Scriptural  Vindication  of  the  Divinity  and  Re- 
deeming Acts  of  Christ."  In  1857  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  H. 
Rigg,  of  England,  issued  a  work  called  "  Modern  Anglican 
Theology,"  a  contribution  on  the  doctrine  of  sacrifice  and 
atonement  against  the  laxity  of  the  Broad  Church  theol- 
ogy of  the  day.    The  British  Standard  said  of  this  book : 


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"It  may  be  doubted  whether  any  other  man  in  Great 
Britain  has  so  complete  and  strong  a  grasp  of  the  entire 
theme."  Dr.  Pope  also  published  works  on  "The  King- 
dom of  Christ"  (1869),  and  "The  Person  of  Christ" 
(1877).  In  1858  the  Rev.  Dr.  Whedon  delivered  a  dis- 
course at  the  annual  commencement  of  the  Biblical- Insti- 
tute at  Concord,  which  was  published  in  accordance  with  a 
resolution  of  the  corporation,  and  entitled,  "Substitutional 
Atonement,  Admissible  by  Reason,  Demonstrable  by  Scrip- 
ture." In  1878  was  published  Dr.  D.  Dorchester's  "Con- 
cessions of  '  Liberalists '  to  Orthodoxy,"  a  work  that  treats 
of  the  Deity  of  Christ,  the  atonement,  and  endless  pun- 
ishment. In  1879  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  Miley,  professor  of  sys- 
tematic theology  in  Drew  Theological  Seminary,  published 
"The  Atonement  in  Christ,"  Bishop  E.  M.  Marvin,  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  was  the  author.  * 
also,  of  a  work  on  "  Christ's  Atonement." 

Numerous  works  on  Justification,  the  Witness  of  the 
Spirit,  Sanctifieation,  and  other  distinctive  doctrines  have 
been  published  from  time  to  time.  The  "  literature  of  the 
higher  life"  will  be  found  treated  in  a  distinct  chapter. 
John  Wesley  was  early  led  to  believe  that  it  was  the  priv- 
ilege of  a  real  Christian  to  have  a  comfortable  persuasion 
of  being  in  a  state  of  salvation,  through  the  influence  of 
the  Holy  Spirit.  In  modern  times  the  doctrine  of  the 
direct  witness  of  the  Spirit  may  be  considered  as  pe- 
culiar to  the  Wesleyans  and  Moravians,  as  Churches; 
yet  it  has  been  distinctly  stated  and  enforced  by  distin- 
guished theologians  of  different  countries,  periods,  and 
denominations.  Several  of  Mr.  Wesley's  sermons  are  clear 
exponents  of  the  doctrine.  Among  the  works  published  on 
this  theme  are:  "The  Witness  of  the  Spirit:  A  Treatise 
on  the  Evidence  of  the  Believer's  Adoption"  (1847),  by 
Rev.  Daniel  Walton ;  "  The  Witness  of  the  Spirit"  (1848), 
by  Rev.  Charles  Prest;  "The  Mission  of  the  Spirit;  or, 
Tne  Office  and  Work  of  the  Comforter  in  Human  Redemp- 


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tion"  (1871),  by  the  Rev.  L.  R.  Dunn,  and  "  Aspects  of 
Christian  Experience,"  by  Bishop  Merrill. 

Among  the  works  pertaining  to  the  resurrection,  immor- 
tality, annihilationisni,  and  Universalism,  we  have  the  fol- 
lowing, among  others  :  Samuel  Drew  on  "  The  Immortality 
of  the  Soul  "  and  "  Resurrection  of  the  Body  ;"  Dr.  Wilbur 
Fisk's  "  Sermons  and  Lectures  on  Universalism  ;"  "  Resur- 
rection of  the  Dead :  a  Vindication  of  the  Literal  Res- 
urrection of  the  Human  Body ;  in  Opposition  to  the  Work 
of  Prof.  Bush"  (1847),  by  Calvin  Kingsley,  afterward  one 
of  the  bishops  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church;  "The 
Human  Body  at  the  Resurrection  of  the  Dead"  (1853),  by 
George  Hodgson;  "Spirit  Life  and  its  Relations"  (1859), 
by  Rev.  T.  Spicer,  D.  D.  ;  "  The  Resurrection  of  the 
Body"  (1859),  by  Rev.  H.  Mattison,  D.  D.,  also  author  of 
"  The  Bible  Doctrine  of  Immortality  ;"  "  Man  all  Immor- 
tal ;  or,  The  Nature  and  Destination  of  Man  as  Taught  by 
Reason  and  Revelation"  (1864),  by  Bishop  D.  W.  Clark; 
"Battle  of  Calvary;  or,  Universalism  and  Cognate  Theo- 
ries against  Jesus  of  Nazareth"  (1873),  by  Rev.  J.  W. 
Chaffiu,  A.  M.  ;  "  Universalism  not  of  the  Bible"  (1873), 
by  Rev.  N.  D.  George,  author  of  "  Annihilationisni  not  of 
the  Bible"  (1870)  ;  "  Annihilation  of  the  Wicked,"  by  Rev. 
W.  McDonald;  "The  Separate  and  Continued  Existence 
of  the  Soul  after  Death,"  by  Rev.  Eli  M.  H.  Fleming,  of 
the  DesMoines  Conference;  and  "Beyond  the  Grave" 
(1879),  by  Bishop  R.  S.  Foster.  This  book  is  composed 
of  three  lectures  delivered  before  the  Chautauqua  Assem- 
bly in  1878,  with  papers  on  recognition  in  the  future  state, 
and  other  addenda.  This  book  created  considerable  com- 
ment, and  called  forth  a  volume  entitled,  "The  Resurrec- 
tion Life;  or,  '  Beyond  the  Grave'  Examined"  (1881),  by 
Rev.  I.  Villars,  of  the  Illinois  Conference  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 

Among  other  Methodist  works  that  may  be  mentioned 
are:  The  "Catechisms,  Nos.  1  and  2"  (1852),  by  Rev. 


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D.  P.  Kidder,  D.  D.  ;  "Studies  in  Theism"  (1879),  by 
Borden  P.  Bowne,  professor  of  philosophy  in  Boston  Uni- 
versity;  "The  Doctrine  of  the  Trinity"  (1846),  by  Rev. 
Dr.  Mattison  ;  ' '  An  Exposition  of  the  Articles  of  Religion 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church"  (1847),  by  Rev.  S. 
Comfort ;  ' 1  Letters  on  the  Eternal  Sonship  of  Christ " 
(1849),  by  Rev.  William  Beauchamp ;  "Philosophy  and 
Practice  of  Faith"  (1853),  by  Lewis  P.  Olds;  "Saving 
Faith  :  its  Rationale, "  by  Rev.  I.  Chamberlayne,  D.  D. ; 
"The  Eternal  Sonship  of  Christ"  (1865),  by  Rev.  R. 
Treffry,  Jr.  ;  and  "The  Foreknowledge  of  God,  and  Cog- 
nate Themes"  (1878),  by  Rev.  L.  D.  McCabe,  D.  D.  In 
this  work  the  author  argues  that  foreknowledge  leads  to 
foreordi nation,  and  hence  he  proposes  to  revolutionize  Wes- 
leyan  theology  by  the  introduction  of  the  denial  of  God's 
foreknowledge  of  future  contingent  events.  Against  the 
doctrine  that  foreknowledge  necessitates  foreordination,  says 
the  Methodist  Quarterly,  "  John  Wesley  fought  all  over  Eng- 
land with  every  Calvinist  and  fatalist  in  pulpit  and  philos- 
ophy, with  Whitefield  no  less  than  with  Toplady.  Against 
that  Fletcher  wrote  his  brilliant  pamphlets.  Against  that 
Watson  rolled  out  his  great  sermons  and  treatise." 

Among  those  who  have  written  controversial  and  spe- 
cial works  on  the  subject  of  baptism  may  be  mentioned  the 
following:  Rev.  C.  Elliott,  D.  D. ,  N.  H.  Lee,  Rev.  F.  G. 
Hibbard,  D.  D.,  Bishop  S.  M.  Merrill,  William  Phillips, 
L.  Rosser,  D.  D.,  Rev.  H.  M.  Shaffer,  H.  Slicer,  D.D., 
Joseph  Travis,  Moses  Hill,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Wesley  Smith, 
Rev.  N.  Doane,  and  Rev.  T.  O.  Summers,  D.  D.  The  last 
is  the  author  of  "Baptism:  a  Treatise  on  the  Nature, 
Perpetuitv,  etc.,  of  the  Initiatory  Ordinance  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church"  (1853).  This  work  argues,  while  discussing 
the  subject  of  baptism  as  a  whole,  that  baptism  is  not  re- 
generation nor  its  necessary  condition  or  instrument ;  and 
it  rejects  the  Calvinistic  theory  that  only  the  children  of 
believing  parents  are  to  be  baptized. 


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Ill 


Having  thus,  as  briefly  as  possible,  taken  a  general  sur- 
vey of  the  "  theological  and  doctrinal  literature  of  Meth- 
odism," we  close  the  chapter  with  a  sense  of  gratitude  that 
while,  in  times  past,  our  fathers  were  compelled  to  meet 
and  combat  heresies  in  multiplied  forms,  to  expose  errors, 
and  save  the  Church  from  imbibing  false  notions,  these 
controversies  were  nevertheless  conducted  in  a  Christian 
spirit,  and  have  ever  been,  as  a  centripetal  force,  drawing 
all  Churches  and  all  Christians  toward  Christ,  their  com- 
mon center.  So  that  to-day,  as  never  before,  Christians 
see  eye  to  eye,  and,  gathering  around  the  common  cross, 
they  join  in  singing, 

"  Blest  be  the  tie  that  binds 
Our  hearts  in  Christian  love.n 

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XIII. 

BOOKS  AND  BENEVOLENCE. 

A  book  is  the  outside  spot  for  which  Archimedes 
searched  so  anxiously.  There  is  no  measuring  its  power. 
Throw  the  spelliDg-book  and  a  New  Testament  into  a 
country,  and  revolution  is  only  a  question  of  time.  They 
will  lift  up  the  roofs  of  the  cabins,  and  add  stories  on  sto- 
ries, till  the  cabins  are  mansions.  They  will  push  the  jail 
aside  for  the  school-house,  and  hide  the  gallows  behind  the 
church.  They  will  widen  the  six-foot  streets  of  China 
into  the  Broadways  of  commerce.  They  will  patch  up  all 
the  rents,  and  rend  all  the  "patches."  They  will  elevate 
every  home,  and  envelop  every  inhabitant.  They  will 
leave  their  transfiguring  power  upon  all  the  community. 
There  is  no  measuring  the  power  of  books. 

A  book  is  a  condensed  and  revised  author.  The  au- 
thor puts  himself  at  his  best.  He  is  out  for  a  purpose. 
He  prepares  his  presence  for  a  given  result.  Thus  attired 
in  his  best,  he  has  access  to  our  inner  selves.  He  has  ad- 
mission to  our  most  secret  hearts.  In  the  form  of  a  book 
he  does  not  awaken  antagonism  as  a  person  who  seeks  to 
instruct  or  correct  us. 

We  take  up  the  ideas  and  suggestions  of  a  book  a  little 
as  if  they  were  our  own  discoveries.  We  have  been  search- 
ing for  them,  and  when  found  we  pass  judgment  upon 
them,  adopting  or  rejecting  them  according  to  our  sweet 
will,  without  any  feeling  that  we  are  yielding  to  the  supe- 
rior strength  or  knowledge  of  another. 

Books  take  us  in  our  solitude.  The  difficult  thing  in 
making  a  case  with  most  business  and  public  men  is  to 


BOOKS  AND  BENEVOLENCE.  179 

get  an  undisturbed  audience,  sufficiently  protracted  to  pre- 
sent the  whole  matter.  This  a  book  can  secure  by  coming 
when  there  is  no  one  to  interfere.  We  are  at  leisure ;  we 
look  over  the  matter,  and  feel  the  argument  and  see  the 
presentations. 

Thus  books  furnish  our  convictions.  We  do  not  adopt 
the  conclusions  of  the  book,  but  we  accept  the  information 
of  the  book,  and  this  becomes  a  part  of  our  opinion,  and 
finally  crystallizes  into  a  conviction. 

The  benevolent  causes  of  the  Church  depend  upon 
conviction.  The  money  to  save  the  world  must  be  con- 
science money.  Impulse  dies  out  like  the  flame  from  a 
wisp  of  straw.  The  boilers  that  feed  the  world's  engines 
must  be  heated  over  stone-coal  fires  to  make  the  world 
move.  The  aggressive  power  of  a  Church  is  in  proportion 
to  the  consecrated  brain  of  the  Church.  The  people  that 
keep  abreast  with  the  great  movements  in  popular  thought 
or  in  the  public  mind  are  the  people  to  plan  and  execute 
campaigns  against  actual  foes.  Put  into  a  family  a  well- 
selected  library  touching  the  great  fields  of  the  Church's 
labors  and  triumphs,  and  that  family  will  grow  into  the 
first  rank  in  the  Church.  This  solid  information  is  found 
in  the  books.  A  smattering  may  be  picked  up  from  the 
conversation  of  well-informed  people.  Outlines  may  be 
borrowed  from  the  weekly  papers,  but  accurate  and  in- 
structive knowledge  can  be  found  only  in  the  books. 

Thus  it  happens  that  one  does  not  find  the  most  intelli- 
gent audiences  in  the  great  cities.  Some  men,  the  most  in- 
telligent in  their  departments  of  labor,  may  be  found ;  but 
the  mass  do  not  average  up  with  country  audiences.  In 
the  country  home,  where  the  daily  seldom  finds  its  way, 
the  family  is  trained  on  the  books  distributed  by  the  pastor 
or  through  the  Sunday-school.  These  become  the  staple 
for  doctrine  and  for  opinion.  These  make  up  the  ground 
of  conviction. 

When  we  furnish  books  that  master  and  unfold  the 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


ground  and  work  of  our  benevolences  and  secure  their 
wide  circulation,  we  shall  raise  a  generation  that  will  stand 
by  the  great  Church  benevolences.  Given  intelligence, 
and  benevolence  will  be  limited  only  by  ability  and  piety. 
Put  the  mission-fields  upon  the  mind  of  the  Church,  and 
the  Spirit  will  press  them  upon  the  heart  and  pocket-book. 
In  great  organizations,  as  well  as  in  individual  accounta- 
bility, knowledge  is  conviction. 

C.  H.  FOWLER. 


LIT  ERA  T  URE  AND  ED  UCA  TION. 


181 


XIV. 

CHURCH  LITERATURE  AND  EDUCA- 
TIONAL WORK. 

Methodist  education  begins  in  the  family,  and  is  con- 
tinued in  the  Sunday-school  and  the  Church.  Besides  the 
more  formal  work  of  instruction,  a  large  and  varied  ele- 
ment of  social  influence  permeates  all  these.  It  is  carried 
on  in  seminaries,  academies,  colleges,  and  universities.  Of 
late  annual  assemblies,  having  this  largely  in  view,  have 
been  inaugurated ;  while,  from  the  beginning,  the  mighty 
influence  of  the  press  has  been  employed  to  strengthen, 
direct,  and  supplement  all  other  agencies.  The  work  of 
education  has  a  most  intimate  relation  to  the  evangeliza- 
tion of  the  world.  It  goes  hand-in-hand  with  the  preach- 
ing of  the  Gospel.  The  evils  of  ignorance  are,  in  number 
and  magnitude,  beyond  estimation.  In  all  its  dispensations 
the  Church  has  made  earnest  efforts  for  their  removal. 
God  complains,  "  My  people  are  destroyed  for  lack  of 
knowledge."  "  O  that  they  were  wise,  that  they  did  un- 
derstand !"  embodies  the  desire  of  his  heart.  To  obviate 
these  evils  kings  were  required  to  write  out  copies  of  his 
law,  and  parents  and  teachers  to  inculcate  its  truth  on  the 
hearts  and  minds  of  the  young.  The  apostles  enjoyed  for 
years  intimate  fellowship  with  the  Great  Teacher,  and  the 
Holy  Ghost  was  given  to  bring  all  his  sayings  to  their  re- 
membrance. Thus  they  were  led  to  commit  to  writing  the 
things  most  surely  believed,  and  in  which  they  would  have 
the  world  instructed.  The  translation  of  the  Bible  and 
the  writings  of  Luther  and  his  coadjutors  were  mainly  in- 
strumental in  the  great  Reformation.     Wesley  and  his 


182 


METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


followers  used  the  press  on  a  large  scale  as  a  most  efficient 
auxiliary  ' '  in  spreading  Scriptural  holiness  over  the 
world." 

In  God's  good  providence  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  has  been  led  to  employ  ample  means  in  promoting 
education,  and  in  always  elevating  the  character  and  con- 
dition of  its  members  and  friends.  The  fathers  made  it 
abundantly  evident  that  they  desired  the  improvement  of 
the  people  in  intelligence  as  well  as  in  religion,  in  knowl- 
edge as  well  as  in  holiness.  They  well  knew  that  as  men 
were  able  to  acquaint  themselves  with  God,  his  character 
and  government,  the  wreck  of  their  own  nature  by  sin  and 
rebellion,  and  the  fatal  consequences  arising  therefrom, 
with  the  marvelous  provision  for  recovery  from  this  state 
of  pollution  and  guilt,  and  the  blessed  results  secured  by 
those  who,  with  penitent  and  grateful  hearts,  accept  the 
overtures  of  divine  grace, — in  short,  that  as  they  enjoyed 
and  illustrated  the  presence  and  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
as  the  revealer  of  truth  and  sanctifier  of  the  soul,  in  that 
proportion  would  they  be  joyous  and  stable  in  their  own 
profession  and  active  and  successful  in  more  firmly  estab- 
lishing and  more  widely  extending  the  triumphs  of  the 
Redeemer's  kingdom  around  them.  They  knew  that  relig- 
ion is  a  wonderful  awakener  of  the  human  faculties,  and 
that  to  a  growing  Church  our  schools  and  literature,  rightly 
conducted,  would  furnish  in  large  degree  the  food  required 
for  mental  and  moral  health  and  strength.  So  various 
institutions  of  learning  sprang  up,  and  under  their  foster- 
ing care  increased  in  usefulness  and  strength.  The  Meth- 
odist Year-book  for  1882  gives  an  aggregate  of  at  least 
thirty-three  classical  seminaries,  thirty-eight  colleges  and 
universities,  eleven  female  colleges,  and  eight  theological 
schools  connected  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
These  ninety  or  more  institutions  had  not  less  than  86,652,- 
200  invested  in  grounds  and  buildings,  and  $5,019,388  in 
their  endowments.   They  employed  a  staff  of  850  professors 


LITERATURE  AND  EDUCATION. 


183 


and  teachers,  and  supplied  the  means  of  study  and  instruc- 
tion to  18,516  young  men  and  women.  The  number  of 
students  taught  in  their  halls  from  the  beginning  reach  a 
grand  aggregate  of  342,311.  It  will  require  the  unfold- 
ings  of  eternity  to  reveal  the  aggregate  of  good  accom- 
plished through  the  educational  department  of  our  Church 
work. 

If  we  turn  to  our  literature,  as  represented  by  the 
products  of  the  press,  we  find  a  magnificent  supply  in  the 
way  of  weekly,  monthly,  and  quarterly  publications,  and 
of  books  and  book  establishments  rivaling  the  largest  pub- 
lishing interests  in  the  world.  The  number,  character, 
and  influence  of  these,  and  their  claims,  will  be  more  fully 
discussed  by  another  hand.  It  is  enough  here  to  observe 
the  wonderful  providence  which  led  the  fathers  of  Meth- 
odism to  enter  on  this  field  of  labor,  and  the  invaluable 
blessings  which  have  been  secured  to  the  Church  and  the 
world.  There  is  nothing  more  truly  sublime  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  American  Church  than,  that  presented  by  our 
pioneer  preachers.  Believing  that  people  should  search 
the  Scriptures  for  themselves,  they  loaded  their  saddle- 
bags with  Bibles,  tracts,  hymn-books,  and  works  of  relig- 
ious biography,  devotion,  and  doctrine.  The  literature  of 
the  Church  as  it  then  was,  was  scattered  freely  among 
the  people  as  a  matter  not  merely  of  propriety,  but  of 
principle  and  binding  obligation.  They  firmly  believed 
that  for  "the  soul  to  be  without  knowledge  is  not  good;" 
and  so,  while  yet  the  Church  had  a  hard  struggle  against 
ignorance,  prejudice,  and  every  form  of  opposition,  they  not 
only  planted  schools,  but,  by  the  circulation  of  good  books 
and  of  all  wholesome  literature,  cultivated  a  taste  for 
reading.  They  secured  among  many  thousands  of  the 
people  that  lived  in  humble  cabins  a  much  deeper  ac- 
quaintance with  the  real  master  minds  of  the  world  and 
with  the  pure  fountain  of  all  learning  than  is  now  to  be 
found  in  some  lordly  palaces.    That  more  books  may  be 


184  METHODISM  AXD  LITERATURE. 


found  on  the  shelves  of  the  latter  is  no  proof  that  their 
owners  are  better  acquainted  with  the  Bible  doctrines  of 
the  Church,  or  with  its  apostolic  polity,  or  that  they  have 
any  deeper  love  for  that  which  constitutes  the  essence  of 
its  spiritual  life. 

Indeed,  the  fear  is  that  the  Church  is  in  danger  not 
more  from  laxity  of  doctrinal  statement  in  its  pulpits  and 
from  a  mere  formal  and  worldly  spirit  in  its  pews  than 
from  the  flood  of  un-Methodist  literature  that  has,  of  late 
years,  crowded  itself  in  every  way  into  our  families  and 
Sunday-schools  and  Church  libraries.  Seduced  by  boastful 
and  often  untruthful  representations  as  to  cost  and  quality, 
and  by  promises  of  liberal  rewards — promises  often  made 
only  to  be  broken — Sunday-school  officers,  and  even  pas- 
tors sometimes,  lend  themselves  to  the  work  of  introducing 
a  literature  that  ignores,  if,  indeed,  it  does  not  directly 
antagonize,  the  pure  truth  of  God  as  held  by  the  Method- 
ist Church.  In  such  cases  our  children  grow  up,  to  a 
large  extent,  ignorant  of  the  distinctive  doctrines  of  the 
Church.  The  spirit  and  usages  that  characterized  its  he- 
roic days  are  laid  aside  as  obsolete  or  something  to  be 
ashamed  of.  The  life  of  the  Church  is  enfeebled  and  ex- 
posed to  serious  inroads  of  evil  in  every  form.  That  this 
humiliating  state  of  affairs  is  not  more  general  is  cause  of 
profound  gratitude.  That  in  some  places,  through  negli- 
gence or  something  worse,  it  does  obtain,  is  cause  of  sin- 
cere sorrow,  and  calls  for  prayerful  consideration. 

In  an  age  characterized  by  so  many  and  such  success- 
ful efforts  to  extend  knowledge  among  all  classes,  on  every 
subject  and  in  all  directions,  the  Church  should  see  to  it 
that  in  these  two  great  lines  of  work — the  planting  and 
nurture  of  Christian  schools  01  the  highest  and  widest 
learning,  and  the  preparation  and  dissemination  of  a  sound 
Christian  and  Methodist  literature — she  not  only  keeps 
pace  with,  but  marches  in  advance  of,  other  agencies  and 
organizations.    Her  ardent  zeal  and  perseverance  in  these 


LITER  A  TUBE  AND  ED  UCA  TION.  185 


directions  mark  her  past  history  with  an  almost  marvelous 
success,  and  enable  her  to  point  to  a  long  and  honored  line 
of  men  and  women  distinguished  as  scholars,  speakers, 
and  writers  among  her  ministers  and  laity.  Their  produc- 
tions in  daily,  weekly,  monthly,  and  quarterly  publications, 
in  lightest  tracts  and  weighty  volumes,  have  gone  out,  and 
still  continue  to  go,  benefiting  and  blessing  the  Church 
and  the  world.  Other  denominations  have  been,  by  her 
example,  provoked  to  love  and  good  works  in  this  direc- 
tion. As  a  consequence,  many  run  to  and  fro,  and  knowl- 
edge, even  the  highest  and  best,  is  increased.  Is  it  not 
pitiful  that  any  in  her  pale  should  be  ignorant  of  her  noble 
record  in  this  regard,  and,  of  course,  have  no  practical 
sympathy  or  desire  to  co-operate  with  her?  In  such 
houses  no  papers  published  by  the  Church  are  found. 
Good  books  are  extremely  rare.  Their  place  is  occupied 
by  vulgar  and  pernicious  literature,  tending  to  lower  the 
tone  of  the  mind  and  to  defile  the  soul.  Any  miserable 
pretense,  inspired  by  ignorance  or  short-sighted  selfishness, 
serves  to  excuse  their  owners  from  spending  money  or 
from  taking  interest  in  such  things  as  are  of  real  value. 
If  circumstances  seem  to  force  them  to  do  so,  they  listen 
eagerly  to  claims  of  pretended  cheapness  or  superior  advan- 
tage of  institutions  or  publications  entirely  foreign,  if  not 
directly  hostile,  to  those  of  their  own  Church.  Their  sons 
and  daughters  know  little  of  what  Methodism  has  done  or  is 
doing,  or  about  the  venerable  men  and  women  who,  under 
God,  have  made  and  are  making  it  what  it  is.  The  holy, 
zealous,  self-denying,  faithful  lives  of  saints  on  earth  and 
in  heaven  are  but  little  knowTn,  and  the  inspiration  of  their 
teaching  and  example  is  scarcely  felt.  No  wonder  such 
are  wavering,  halting,  unreliable,  and  bring  forth  no  fruit 
to  perfection  in  any  line  of  Christian  effort.  No  wonder 
their  children  have  no  tender  regard  for  or  attachment  to 
the  Church  of  their  fathers,  and  are  easily  led  or  driven 
in  other  directions.    They  live,  and  die,  and  are  forgotten. 

16 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


They  have  no  inheritance  among  those  who  find  God's 
covenant  blessings  descend,  entailed  upon  them  and  their 
children.  By  availing  themselves  of  the  advantages  within 
their  reach,  and  by  the  reasonable  encouragement  of  their 
own  Church  schools  and  the  publications  of  their  own 
Book  Concern,  so  superior  in  most  valuable  respects,  they 
might  have  been  enrolled  among  those  who  have  their 
memory  and  their  virtues  fondly  cherished  and  their  lives 
of  pure  and  elevated  piety  embalmed  among  the  benefac- 
tors of  mankind,  and  reproduced  in  their  children's  chil- 
dren to  the  latest  generations. 

In  this  discussion  it  is  assumed  that  the  relation  of  lit- 
erature and  education  is  one  of  reciprocity.  They  act  and 
react  each  on  the  other,  and  both  lie  at  the  foundation  of 
and  pervade  all  our  civilization,  and  enter  every  depart- 
ment of  modern  thought,  activity,  and  influence.  No 
branch  of  the  Church  can  perpetuate  itself  and  do  its  own 
proper  work  if  it  does  not  assiduously  conserve  and  culti- 
vate these  two  great  interests.  To  depend  on  outside  par- 
ties, and  to  let  others  attempt  to  do  this  important  part 
of  its  work  for  it,  is  to  manifest  not  only  indifference  to  its 
own  well-being,  but  to  pursue  a  course  that  will  certainly 
end  in  its  destruction.  Especially  is  this  true  in  the  higher 
walks  of  Christian  literature  and  education.  And  if  so 
now,  it  is  destined  to  be  even  more  so  in  the  not  remote 
future.  The  age  is  one  of  books,  reviews,  magazines,  and 
tracts  and  newspapers.  These  are  destined  more  and  more 
to  mold  the  vital  forces  of  humanity,  and  to  give  them 
strength  and  direction.  To  do  this  wisely  and  well  re- 
quires the  ripest  thought  and  the  best  possible  culture. 
Conjoined  with  divine  grace,  these  are  destined  to  wield 
the  destinies  of  our  world.  Error  and  falsehood,  in  diverse 
and  often  insidious  forms,  are  diligently  at  work  to  mislead 
the  mind,  corrupt  the  heart,  and  keep  mankind  away  from 
God.  Can  the  Methodist  Church  dare  to  neglect  the  po- 
tent influence  of  truth  and  purity  and  love — in  short,  the 


LITERATURE  AND  EDUCATION. 


187 


power  of  literature  and  education,  in  their  best  forms — 
and  yet  be  innocent  before  God  ?  Can  any  member  be  a 
true  follower  of  Christ,  and  at  the  same  time  be  indiffer- 
ent as  to  the  pleasure  and  the  power  these  may  supply  in 
personal  experience,  and  their  marvelous  formative  and 
controlling  power  over  others? 

Grateful  for  the  good  accomplished  and  the  still  greater 
good  within  reach,  let  Methodists  everywhere  rally  to  the 
support  of  these  interests.  Let  every  man,  woman,  and 
child  among  us  feel  themselves  to  be  co-partners  in  the 
great  work  of  fostering  and  extending  their  influence  far 
and  wide  in  blessing  humanity,  and  in  making  manifest 
the  glory  of  God.  No  Church  has  a  richer  heritage  in  these 
respects,  and  never  was  it  more  worthy  of  support  and 
more  likely  to  be  productive  of  good.  Let  our  able  au- 
thors be  encouraged  to  write.  Let  all  foster  and  strengthen 
our  educational  institutions.  Let  the  Church  not  only  be 
kept  abreast  with  all  that  is  best  in  the  spirit  of  the  age, 
but  let  her  take  her  appropriate  place  in  the  very  front  of 
those  who  lead  Immanuel's  hosts,  and  then  may  we,  with 
confidence,  hope  for  the  most  blessed  and  glorious  resultSo 

MRS.  ALEXANDER  MARTIN. 


188  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


XV. 

THE  TRACT  SOCIETY. 

ITS  ORIGIN,  AIMS,  LITERATURE,  AND  POSSIBILITIES. 

The  Christian  religion  is  essentially  and  pre-eminently 
a  missionary  religion.  It  is  a  vast  missionary  scheme  that 
aims  at  the  subjugation  of  the  world  to  the  dominion  of 
right,  truth,  and  purity.  But  for  this  fact  it  never  would 
have  left  Palestine  to  seek  and  save  the  lost  in  other  lands. 
Its  great  Founder,  after  having  announced  himself  the 
Light  of  the  world,  theu  died  for  its  redemption,  commis- 
sioned his  apostles  to  "  go  and  teach  all  nations,"  to  preach 
his  "gospel  to  every  creaturer"  In  this  "great  commis- 
sion "  we  see  the  present  duty  of  the  Christians  of  to-day, 
and  in  its  spirit  we  have  the  germ  of  Methodism  with  all 
its  Christianizing  agencies.  Methodism  was,  and  is,  a  ne- 
cessity as  an  agency  for  the  regeneration  of  the  world. 
It  is  essentially  missionary  in  its  spirit,  methods,  and  aims. 
The  missionary  spirit  is  bound  up  in  its  unique  and  mag- 
nificent economy.  We  wonder  not,  therefore,  that  John 
Wesley  and  his  colaborers  were  much  given  to  tract  distri- 
bution. We  wonder  not  that  Mr.  Wesley  not  only  prayed 
and  studied  to  find  out  the  wants  of  the  world,  but  planned, 
wrote,  and  labored  to  supply  them.  He  lived  and  breathed 
and  had  his  being  in  an  atmosphere  of  culture  and  relig- 
ion ;  hence,  all  his  time  and  energies  were  consumed  in 
bringing  souls  to  Christ  and  helping  them  to  develop  into 
intelligent  and  useful  Christians.  He  manifested  an  utter 
abhorrence  of  that  old,  fanatical,  unphilosophical,  and  un- 
biblical  adage  that  "  ignorance  is  the  mother  of  devotion" 


THE  TRACT  SOCIETY. 


189 


by  instituting  schools,  writing  tracts  and  books,  circulating 
them  through  his  preachers  and  in  other  ways.  Gladly  do 
we  recognize  that  one  of  the  grandest  facts  connected  with 
the  origin  and  growth  of  Methodism  is  its  efforts  to  diffuse 
the  blessings  of  education,  and  thus  aid  in  establishing  an 
intelligent  and  solid  Christian  civilization.  From  the  be- 
ginning its  ministers  have  been  solemnly  obligated  to  cir- 
culate tract:  and  books  among  the  people. 

To  aid  them  in  this  much-needed  work  the  Tract  Soci- 
ety was  organized.  The  germ  of  its  existence  is  in  Chris- 
tianity. The  development  of  this  germ  into  its  present 
form  can  not  be  given  in  detail.  A  few  facts  only  can  be 
named.  The  Society  was  formed  to  meet  a  felt  want,  to 
aid  in  solving  the  problem,  "How  can  the  Church  reach 
the  thousands  of  n on -church -goers,  and  bring  them  under 
the  influence  of  the  Gospel  ?"  It  was  clearly  seen  that  as 
they  would  not  come  near  the  Church,  the  Church  must 
in  some  way  draw  nearer  to  them.  To  aid  in  accomplish- 
ing this  work  a  Tract  Society  was  organized  in  New  York 
in  1817,  which,  after  a  few  changes,  resulted,  in  1833,  in 
the  formation  of  a  Society  that  undertook  the  management 
of  three  benevolent  enterprises  of  the  Church;  namely, 
' 4  The  Bible,  Sunday-school,  and  Tract  Society."  In  1836, 
however,  the  work  of  the  Bible  Society  was  turned  over 
to  the  American  Bible  Society ;  and,  after  some  other 
changes,  the  General  Conference  of  1872  brought  all  the 
benevolent  societies  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  into 
organic  unity.  The  Tract  Society  in  its  present  form  is, 
therefore,  the  growth  of  years,  and  is  one  of  the  grandest 
products  of  the  missionary  spirit  of  the  Church. 

The  sublime  aim  of  the  Tract  Society  now  is  "  to 
diffuse  religious  knowledge  by  the  circulation  of  the  pub- 
lications of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  the  English 
and  other  languages,  in  our  own  and  foreign  countries." 
It  will  be  seen  that  the  field  of  its  operations  is  as  wide  as 
its  aim  is  Christly  and  grand.    Were  these  facts  studied 


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METHODISM  AXD  LITERATURE. 


by.  the  ministers  and  members  of  our  Church  with  that 
careful  and  prayerful  spirit  which  their  importance  and 
relations  demand,  the  results  would  be  increased  collec- 
tions and  a  persistent  purpose  to  make  this  agency  effective 
in  the  accomplishment  of  its  mission.  The  world's  great 
want  is  correct  religious  knowledge.  Its  present  state  of 
degradation  and  ruin,  its  barbarisms  and  defective  civiliza- 
tions, with  their  tyrannies,  cruelties,  intellectual  and  moral 
darkness,  and  vile  abominations,  are  largely  owing  to  its 
false  views  of  God  and  man.  The  object  of  our  Tract 
Society  is  to  diffuse  the  kind  of  knowledge  that  it  most 
needs.  That  is,  our  Church  proposes  to  send  books,  pa- 
pers, and  tracts  to  every  mission-field,  as  well  as  to  furnish 
books  and  tracts  to  supply  the  necessities  of  our  work  at 
home.  Here  is  certainly  a  vast  and  momentous  work — a 
work  that  is  positively  overwhelming  in  its  magnitude  and 
import,  and  one  that  demands  much  thought,  wisdom,  en- 
ergy, sympathy,  and  money  for  its  accomplishment.  And 
we  verily  believe  that  all  these  would  be  forthcoming  if 
our  membership  only  saw  the  nature,  grandeur,  and 
Christly  character  of  the  work.  The  prin ting-press,  if 
rightly  used,  can  greatly  aid  the  Church  in  saving  the 
world.  Of  the  work  already  done  by  it  we  can  form  no 
adequate  conception. 

The  reports  of  our  Tract  Society  tell  us  that  our  own 
press,  during  the  past  twenty-eight  years,  has  issued  about 
700,000,000  pages  of  tracts,  besides  publishing  for  the 
benefit  of  the  freedmen  "a  beautiful  little  weekly  paper 
called  Good  Tidings."  This  work  has  been  done  by  the 
Tract  Society,  except  as  it  has  been  aided  by  the  Sunday- 
school  Union  in  the  publication  of  the  above-named  paper. 
Then,  in  addition  to  this,  it  has  published  a  large  number 
of  pamphlets,  weekly  papers,  and  books  for  our  foreign 
fields  of  labor.  Since  1854  it  lias  expended  over  $50,000 
in  our  foreign  fields.  The  vast'  aggregate  of  work  done  at 
home  and  abroad  is  simply  amazing.    Tracts,  papers,  and 


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191 


books  published  in  foreign  languages,  to  aid  missionaries 
in  their  work,  constitute  one  of  the  grandest  monuments 
of  the  Church's  foresight,  wisdom,  and  energy,  to  say  noth- 
ing about  the  work  done  at  home.  Foundations  have  been 
laid  for  building  purer  and  loftier  civilizations  in  many 
pagan  lands.  Then  think  of  the  many  that  this  agency 
has  brought  to  Christ,  directly  and  indirectly ;  of  the 
drunkards  that  have  been  saved,  backsliders  reclaimed, 
wavering  ones  confirmed,  despairing  and  doubting  ones  in- 
spired with  faith  and  courage,  sorrowing  ones  comforted, 
and  inactive  ones  stirred  and  aroused  to  live  earnest,  use- 
ful lives,  through  the  visitations  of  those  little  evangels 
called  tracts.  Many  of  those  silent  messengers  have  histo- 
ries which,  could  they  be  seen  and  read,  would  thrill  our 
souls  and  fire  them  with  zeal  to  make  their  visits  to  un- 
saved souls  and  prayerless  homes  more  frequent  and  pow- 
erful for  good.  Looking  at  past  achievements,  ought  we 
not  to  keep  before  the  minds  of  the  people  the  very  pal- 
pable fact  that,  without  the  aid  of  the  Tract  Society, 
neither  the  Church  at  home  nor  the  Church  in  foreign 
lands  can  do  its  work  as  it  needs  to  be  done  ?  Whence 
could  come  the  books,  tracts,  and  papers  needed  by  the 
missionaries?  And  how  can  the  non-church-going  part  of 
our  home  population  be  brought  to  Christ? 

Let  us  not  forget  that,  in  other  departments  of  thought 
and  labor,  the  tract  is  a  recognized  power.  Its  power  in 
the  skeptical,  educational,  and  political  world  is  simply 
marvelous.  Nearly  fifty  years  ago  Macaulay  said,  "Men 
are  not  converted  or  perverted  by  quartos."  There  is  a 
prodigious  power  in  a  well-written,  attractively  got-up 
tract.  Our  Baptist  friends  have  used  it  to  make  converts 
to  their  peculiar  views,  with  marvelous  success.  Advent- 
ism  could  not  have  grown  to  its  present  proportions  with- 
out it.  Skepticism  in  all  its  forms  has  proved  its  power. 
Who  does  not  know  that  worldlings,  doubters,  skeptics, 
sensualists,  lovers  of  pleasure  and  worldly  amusements,  are 


192  METHODISM  AND  LIT  ERA  TV  RE. 

greedy  after  books  and  tracts  that  condemn  the  Bible,  the 
Sabbath,  the  Church,  and  all  those  who  love  them,  as 
fanatics  and  old  fogies,  who  are  foolishly  clinging  to  a 
worn-out  delusion.  Now,  how  can  we  counteract  the  mis- 
chief done  by  skeptical  and  semi-skeptical  publications  ex- 
cept by  the  publication  and  circulation  of  tracts? 

Then,  is  there  not  a  cheap  and  pernicious  literature  that 
can  not  here  be  described  or  characterized,  that  is  scattered 
broadcast  over  the  land?  No  mind  but  the  mind  of  the 
Infinite  can  see  the  subtle  and  insidious  workings  of  this 
poison  in  the  minds  of  the  youth  of  our  land;  and  no 
mind  but  his  can  see  how  it  pollutes  their  imagination  and 
inflames  their  lowest  passions,  and  thus  ruins  them  for 
time  and  eternity.  How,  then,  can  these  streams  of  a 
poisonous  literature  be  stemmed?  Not  by  our  quarterlies, 
monthlies,  and  weeklies  alone,  nor  by  our  Sabbath -schools 
and  pulpits.  These  have  their  work;  but  they  do  not 
reach  the  thousands  who  never,  or  seldom,  attend  our 
churches.  There  is  but  one  way  to  reach  them,  and  that 
is  by  tract  distribution.  If  the  kingdom  of  evil  sends  out 
its  poisonous  missives,  the  kingdom  of  God  must  send  out 
its  millions  of  little  evangels  to  counteract  their  destructive 
work.  To  write  such  tracts  as  the  times  need  demands 
the  very  best  talent  of  the  Chucrh.  We  have  some,  but 
there  are  not  enough  of  first-class  tracts.  Y»rhen  we  survey 
the  battle-field,  we  see  that  in  this  country,  Europe,  and 
Asia  there  is  a  great  conflict  of  thought,  a  great  battle, 
raging  between  the  forces  of  a  spiritualistic  and  material- 
istic philosophy.  The  very  foundations  of  revealed  relig- 
ion are  threatened.  "  God  or  no  God,"  mind  or  no  mind, 
a  personal  immortality  or  an  impersonal  one  among  the 
gases  of  the  universe,  are  the  great  questions  now  agitating 
the  great  sea  of  human  thought.  In  view  of  these  facts, 
is  there  not  work  for  the  Tract  Society  to  do? — a  work 
that  no  other  agency  can  accomplish  ?  Is  it  not  true  now, 
as  in  the  past,  that  the  children  of  this  world  are  wiser  in 


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193 


their  generation  than  the  children  of  light?  O,  if  the 
Church  would  but  use  her  agencies  as  she  might,  she 
could  speak  to  the  stormy  seas  of  human  thought  and  feel- 
ing, and  there  would  be  a  great  calm. 

For  it  does  seem,  when  we  simply  glance  at  her  agen- 
cies, as  if  she  possessed  almost  measureless  possibilities. 
Her  moral  forces  are  simply  vast,  grand,  and  mighty. 
Her  pulpits,  press,  Sabbath-schools,  missionary,  and  tract 
societies  furnish  an  equipment  that  can  not  be  paralleled. 
It  is  the  marvelous  outcome  of  eighteen  centuries  of  plan- 
ning, suffering,  and  working.  But  mere  possession  accom- 
plishes nothing.  It  is  of  no  use  publishing  to  the  world 
that  we  have  grand  machinery  unless  we  set  it  in  motion. 
It  is  of  no  use  saying  that  we  have  "tracts  for  the  masses" 
unless  we  circulate  them  among  the  masses.  These  talents 
must  be  used,  or  they  will  be  taken  away.  They  are  used 
by  our  missionaries  in  India,  China,  Mexico,  Germany, 
and  other  foreign  lands,  with  good  results.  "What  Dr. 
Vernon  says  with  regard  to  the  benefits  of  tract  distribu- 
tion in  Home  and  other  parts  of  Italy  is  true  of  other 
mission-fields.  The  missionaries  of  all  lands  can  unite  with 
him  in  saying  that  "tracts,  papers,  and  books  are  im- 
mensely important  to  us."  The  tracts  which  they  distrib- 
ute "  in  public  places,  railroads,  steamboats,  and  at  the 
homes  of  the  people,"  reach  thousands  that  no  other  agency 
could  reach  so  effectually.  Many,  through  the  earnest 
warnings,  exhortations,  and  invitations  of  those  little  angels 
of  light  and  salvation,  are  brought  to  the  public  service 
of  God's  house.  They  visit  not  only  the  homes  of  pov- 
erty, crime,  and  want,  but  the  homes  of  the  rich  and  the 
mansions  of  the  great. 

Now,  if  tracts  can  do  such  a  glorious  work*  for  God 
and  his  cause  in  other  lands,  why  may  they  not  accom- 
plish a  similar  work  at  home?  The  conditions  are  widely 
different,  no  doubt;  but  ignorant,  debased,  sinful,  and 
suffering  humanity  is  in  as  much  need  of  the  Gospel  at 

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194  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


home  as  abroad.  If,  therefore,  tracts  can  aid  missionaries 
in  bringing  souls  to  Christ,  and  laying  the  foundations  of 
a  Christian  civilization  in  other  lands,  why  may  they  not 
aid  in  the  work  of  soul-saving  at  home,  and  in  building  a 
purer  and  loftier  civilization  in  our  own  land  ?  Can  any 
one  deny  such  a  possibility  ?  Missionaries  in  their  preach- 
ing tours,  by  the  use  of  tracts,  papers,  and  books  supplied 
by  the  Tract  Society,  disseminate  truth,  scatter  seeds  of 
eternal  life  that  will  ultimate  in  a  rich  harvest  of  souls, 
and  produce  changes  in  the  thought  life  of  the  people  that 
will  aid  in  overturning  hoary  and  colossal  systems  of  error 
and  forming  a  purer  and  grander  social  fabric.  This  is  no 
imaginary  idea,  as  the  work  is  now  going  on. 

And  when  we  stop  long  enough  to  think  of  the  almost 
numberless  opportunities  that  the  Church  has  for  doing 
good  at  home,  and  of  her  vast  organized  agencies,  we  are 
ready  to  ask,  What  could  she  not  do  if  those  agencies  were 
baptized  with  the  Spirit  of  Christ,  and  wisely  directed 
along  needed  lines  of  action  ?  Think  of  her  pulpits,  press, 
Sabbath-schools,  and  her  social  means  of  grace.  What, 
if  these  were  all  used,  in  addition  to  a  well-organized  sys- 
tem of  tract  distribution  in  the  circulation  of  our  "tract 
literature,"  what  might  not  be  accomplished  toward  reach- 
ing the  thousands  of  non-church-goers,  and  quickening  the 
spiritual  life  of  our  membership?  Have  we  not  tracts 
adapted,  by  their  almost  infinite  variety  of  subjects,  to 
accomplish  this  twofold  work  ?  Certainly  we  have.  They 
contain  truths  that  are  suited  to  all  conditions  of  life  and 
experience — truths  that  antagonize  every  form  of  error 
and  evil ;  truths  that  expose  the  sophistries,  worldliness, 
and  selfishness  of  those  who  advocate  a  tribe  of  amuse- 
ments that  sap  the  very  foundations  of  Christian  life  and 
usefulness,  besides  preventing  many  from  becoming  Chris- 
tians. We  have  tracts  that  expose  the  wickedness  of 
liquor  making  and  drinking  as  a  beverage,  as  well  as 
against  other  wily,  subtle,  persistent  enemies  of  our  civili- 


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195 


zation,  who  are  aiming  at  the  secularization  of  the  Sab- 
bath, and  other  enemies  who  are  attacking  the  sanctity 
of  marriage  and  seeking  the  destruction  of  our  Christian 
homes.  We  have  also  tracts  that  defend,  as  well  as  ex- 
plain, the  distinctive  doctrines  of  Methodism  and  its  unique 
and  unequaled  economy,  besides  those  that  lift  up  their 
voice  of  warning  against  the  sins  of  covetousness,  indiffer- 
ence, selfishness,  inactivity,  and  love  of  worldly  pleasures 
and  amusements  that  are  so  prevalent  in  the  Church  and 
so  fatal  to  its  spiritual  life  and  progress.  Let  me  ask, 
Can  any  thoughtful  minister  or  layman  doubt  that  a  judi- 
cious distribution  of  such  tracts  would  render  substan- 
tial aid  in  giving  to  the  Church  an  inspiration  after  a 
purer  and  more  aggressive  life  ?  Would  not  such  labor 
help  to  solve  the  yet  unsolved  problem,  "  How  can  the 
thousands  who  never  attend  Church  be  brought  under  tlie  saving 
influence  of  the  Gospel  of  Christt"  And  would  it  not  furnish 
"  labor  in  the  Lord"  for  thousands  who  are  anxiously  wait- 
ing for  some  field  of  usefulness,  and  are  wishing  that  the 
ministers  would  open  one  for  them?  Brother  ministers, 
you  know  that  in  all  our  charges  there  are  those  whose 
souls  are  being  shriveled  by  a  marvelous  inactivity ;  and 
are  not  we  at  fault  for  this  lamentable  fact  ?  How  many, 
during  the  past  quarter  of  a  century,  have  abandoned  the 
path  of  duty,  fallen  into  the  meshes  of  doubt,  or  lost  them- 
selves in  the  endless  mazes  of  infidelity,  if  not  in  the  deep, 
dark  waters  of  vice  and  sensuality,  simply  because  their 
pastors  failed  to  give  wise  direction  to  their  thoughts  and 
energies !  They  perished  in  the  ways  of  unrighteousness, 
because  they  were  not  given  something  to  think  about  and 
something  to  do.  They  were  left  under  the  direction  of 
skeptical  thought  and  vicious  influences,  when  a  few  well- 
chosen  tracts  would  have  met  their  mental  wants,  and  a 
little  work  of  tract  distribution  would  have  settled  their 
doubts  and  developed  their  spiritual  life,  and  thus  saved 
most  of  them,  at  least,  to  Christ  and  his  cause. 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


In  looking,  therefore,  at  the  work  to  be  done  and  at 
the  agencies  for  its  accomplishment,  is  it  not  time  for  our 
Church  to  take  on  a  new  life,  and  occupy  a  broader  field 
of  usefulness?  The  necessities  of  the  times  demand  that 
she  should  "  take  a  new  departure,"  or  she  can  not  "  preach 
the  Gospel  to  every  creature."  Some  systematic  labor  of 
the  membership  of  our  Church  is  demanded ;  for,  talk  and 
write  as  we  may  about  ministers  "  visiting  from  house  to 
house,"  there  stands  before  us  the  palpable  fact  that  such 
are  the  conditions  of  the  world  of  labor  and  commerce  that 
it  is  utterly  impossible  (even  if  they  had  the  time  and  en- 
ergy) for  them  to  come  into  personal  contact  with  half  of 
those  who  are  seldom  or  never  seen  at  divine  service. 
Then,  there  is  the  fact  that  spoken  words  are  often  evanes- 
cent in  their  influence.  The  varied  conditions  and  the 
multitudinous  temptations  and  forces  in  society  soon  blot 
out  the  impressions  made  by  an  occasional  visit  of  the 
minister.  This  is  the  rule.  The  power  of  the  printed 
page  can  do  a  much  more  extensive  and  permanent  work ; 
therefore,  the  Church  is  under  the  most  solemn  obligation 
to  use  this  power. 

What  shall  be  the  history  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  future?  It  is  for  us  to  determine.  The 
Tract  Society  has  made  it  possible  for  the  Church  to  fulfill 
its  mission,  and  it  is  in  our  power  to  move  it  along  lines 
of  action  that  shall  develop  its  life  and  increase  its  ag- 
gressive and  regenerating  power  as  the  years  come  and  go. 
The  possibilities  of  this  Society,  if  properly  developed,  are 
almost  infinite.  Surely,  if  Romanists,  skeptics,  spiritual- 
ists, Adventists,  and  other  organizations  use  the  tract  so 
skillfully,  zealously,  and  with  such  amazing  effect,  we 
should  not  fail  to  use  it  for  higher  ends  and  diviner  pur- 
poses. "  If,  under  the  adornments  of  rhetoric,"  the  tract 
is  used  to  circulate  the  poison  of  infidelity,  sensuality,  and 
an  emasculating  sentimentalism  through  the  life-currents 
of  society,  we  shall  use  it  to  stem  those  currents  by  circu- 


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197 


lating  a  pure  and  an  ennobling  literature.  We  are  already 
fighting  Romanism  all  over  the  world,  Morraonism  in  the 
far  West,  Buddhism,  Brahminism,  Hiudooism,  and  Con- 
fucianism in  the  East,  and  materialism  in  Germany  and 
France,  in  Europe,  by  the  use  of  the  tract.  Why,  then, 
should  we  not  develop  the  grand  possibilities  of  the  Tract 
Society  by  a  systematic  and  persistent  use  of  the  little 
messenger  of  truth,  for  evangelistic  purposes,  in  every  place 
where  it  is  practicable  ?  What  the  Church  needs  is  light 
on  this  department  of  her  work ;  then  she  will  furnish  the 
money  and  energy  needed  for  its  accomplishment.  The 
circulation  of  a  living,  energetic,  sanctified  tract  literature 
would  make  many  wildernesses  of  sin  and  deserts  of  relig- 
ious ignorance  bloom  like  Eden,  and  become  fruitful  as 
the  Garden  of  the  Lord.  Souls  are  perishing  for  lack  of 
knowledge  within  the  sound  of  our  church-bells,  but  they 
will  not  come  to  our  Church  services.  What  shall  be 
done  ?  The  answer  is,  The  people  must  be  instructed  with 
regard  to  the  necessity  and  feasibility  of  tract  distribution, 
then  urged  to  organized  effort,  so  as  to  utilize  the  forces 
of  the  Church  under  a  system  of  pastoral  direction.  If 
this  was  done,  we  would  soon  see  a  marked  change  both 
in  the  spiritual  condition  of  the  Church  and  in  the  size 
and  composition  of  our  congregations.  Sabbath  desecra- 
tion would  be  greatly  diminished,  and  the  number  of 
worldly,  non-spiritual,  dance-loving  and  theater- going  mem- 
bers of  the  Church  would  grow  far  less.  Only  let  there 
be  prompt,  extensive,  and  energetic  action,  action  upon  a 
scale  commensurate  with  our  abilities  and  opportunities, 
then  money  would  flow  into  the  treasury  of  the  Society, 
and  its  possibilities  for  good  be  multiplied  to  an  amazing 
extent. 

Much,  however,  will  depend  on  how  tracts  are  distrib- 
uted. There  should  not,  as  a  rule,  be  any  sly  or  cowardly 
dropping  of  them  in  saloons  or  anywhere  else.  The  work 
is  Christian  work  ;  therefore,  let  it  be  done  openly,  bravely, 


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and  prayerfully.  A  tract,  to  some,  may  seem  an  insig- 
nificant thing ;  but,  when  given  with  a  warm  heart  and 
loving  hands  in  the  name  of  Jesus,  it  will  be  a  messenger 
of  life  and  salvation  to  the  thoughtful.  Howard  visited  the 
prisons,  and  Florence  Nightingale  ministered  to  wounded 
soldiers  with  her  own  loving  hands,  and  Christ  laid  his 
hands  upon  the  sick  and  suffering,  and  healed  them.  Let, 
therefore,  Christian  workers  visit  from  house  to  house,  and 
go  among  the  lost  everywhere,  and  carry  them  words  of 
comfort,  hope,  and  salvation.  Let  them  seek  to  bless 
their  neighbors  and  friends  by  1 '  leading  them  to  the  place 
where  Christ  is"  preached.  Then  let  our  Sabbath-schools, 
prayer-meetings,  business-men,  as  well  as  ministers,  aid  in 
this  blessed  work.  Let  there  be  auxiliary  societies  organ- 
ized wherever  practicable,  for  the  purpose  of  sending  out 
men  and  women  constantly  to  circulate  a  pure  and  ele- 
vated literature  among  the  poor,  the  sick,  and  unsaved ; 
then  God  will  crown  their  efforts  with  abundant  success, 
and  the  world  will  be  lifted  nearer  God  and  heaven. 
What  is  needed  is  the  utilization  of  existing  agencies,  and 
it  will  be  done.  May  God  help  both  ministers  and  people 
to  do  their  duty ! 

THOMAS  STALKER. 


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XVI. 

OUR  SUNDAY-SCHOOL  LESSON  HELPS. 

The  present  phases  of  the  Sunday-school  movement 
are  eminently  characteristic  of  the  times. 

L  The  sanctity  of  learning  is  a  vanished  dream.  The 
voice  of  the  people,  and  doubtless  the  voice  of  God,  is, 
that  there  shall  no  longer  be  a  mysterious  sacredness  wall- 
ing in  knowledge  from  the  people.  Community  of  knowl- 
edge, if  not  of  goods,  is  the  doctrine  of  the  day.  The 
popularization  of  knowledge  is,  above  all  things  else,  the 
greatest  secular  achievement  of  this  century.  The  sover- 
eign people  demand  that  all  knowledge  shall  be  for  all  the 
people ;  all  that  is  known  to  the  learned  is  required  for 
common  use  by  the  masses  of  the  unlearned.  The  igno- 
rant and  the  penniless  claim,  at  least  for  their  children, 
the  dissemination  of  all  science  through  the  free  common 
school.  This  communistic  spirit  is  pre-eminently  exhibited 
in  the  latest  developments  of  the  Sunday-school  work. 
The  clergy  no  longer  hold  a  monopoly  of  religious  learn- 
ing, to  be  meagerly  and  circumspectly  dispensed  to  the 
laity,  but  laymen  seek  and  are  granted  free  range  through 
all  the  long  secluded  paths  of  religious  inquiry.  All  Bib- 
lical and  theological  and  ecclesiastical  knowledge,  accumu- 
lated through  ages  of  devout  research  and  reflection,  is 
now  offered  to  the  children  of  the  poorest  without  charge 
or  stint.  The  utmost  meaning  of  Greek  or  Hebrew  root 
is  opened  to  the  merest  child.  The  profouudest  reflection 
of  the  most  learned  father  is  communicated  to  a  street 
Arab  in  the  mission-school.  The  latest  result  of  Biblical 
criticism  is  laid  before  a  bevy  of  smiling  girls.    The  stores 


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of  history  and  travel  and  science  and  art  are  ravished  to 
illuminate  and  adorn  the  lesson  for  infants.  Every  thing 
that  is  known  or  has  ever  been  conceived  is  rehearsed  to 
the  pauper's  child. 

II.  International  comity,  coming  into  the  place  of  per- 
petual war,  is  evidencing  the  power  of  Him  through  whose 
power,  also,  sectarian  bigotry  and  exclusiveness  are  giving 
place  to  harmonious  combinations  of  the  Churches  against 
unbelief,  ungodliness,  and  heathenism.  The  extreme  doc- 
trine of  the  day  is  pseudo-liberalism,  creedless,  formless, 
indefinite,  void  ;  but  the  Church  is  not  going  over  into 
that  absurdity  and  suicide.  The  Churches  are  emphasizing 
to-day  their  points  of  agreement,  and  making  secondary 
their  points  of  difference.  The  spirit  of  unity  is  becom- 
ing prevalent  in  Christendom,  and  harmonious  organiza- 
tion against  Antichrist  is  the  ecclesiastical  achievement 
of  the  age.  The  great  Bible  societies,  composed  of  all  the 
Churches  consenting  to  distribute  throughout  the  world 
the  Word  of  God,  "  without  note  or  comment,"  as  nearly 
as  possible  unadulterated  by  any  admixture  of  human 
opinion  or  doctrine,  remarkably  illustrate  this  spirit  of 
unity.  Even  more  strikingly  is  this  spirit  of  the  age  ex- 
hibited in  the  adoption  of  an  international  series  of  uni- 
form lessons  for  the  Sunday-school.  The  Churches  agree- 
ing together  to  study  and  teach  simultaneously  the  same 
portions  of  Scripture,  seem,  now  as  never  before,  to  see 
eye  to  eye.  This  is  not  merely  an  outward,  formal  com- 
bination for  mutual  defense,  for  common  attack  in  the  face 
of  a  common  foe,  but  an  inward,  ingenuous,  hearty  agree- 
ment that  the  thought  and  heart  of  Christ's  Church  shall 
take  a  common  rhythmic  movement  harmonized  by  the 
Master's  voice.  So  now  the  intellectual  resources  of  all 
the  Churches  are  made  a  common  stock  for  the  enrichment 
of  the  common  mind ;  and  all  that  men  know  or  think 
upon  any  portion  of  God's  Word  is  simultaneously  dissem- 
inated to  every  part  of  Christ's  Church.    The  essential 


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unity  of  the  Christian  faith  and  purpose  is  coming  forth  as 
the  brightness  of  the  sun  before  the  delighted  Church  and 
the  astonished  world. 

III.  As  the  industry  of  the  day  is  marked  by  an  econ- 
omy of  power  secured  in  the  skilled  division  of  labor,  so 
religious  and  intellectual  activity  economizes  power  by  sys- 
tematizing work  and  organizing  workers ;  and  this,  too,  ap- 
pears in  the  latest  Sunday-school  methods.  The  common 
schools  are  now  graded  in  separate  departments,  according 
to  the  age  and  capacity  of  the  pupils,  conducted  by  teach- 
ers trained  each  for  his  special  department,  and  using 
books,  apparatus,  aud  methods  adapted  to  the  peculiar 
wants  of  his  work.  In  the  Sunday-school  will  be  found 
the  same  gradation  of  scholars  and  the  same  adaptation 
of  teachers  and  teaching  to  special  departments.  We  find 
normal  classes,  adult  classes,  young  people's  classes,  inter- 
mediate classes,  and  primary  or  infant  classes ;  we  shall 
find  also,  we  trust,  teachers  qualified  to  succeed  in  these 
several  departments. 

These  considerations  show  that  the  question  of  Lesson 
Helps  involves  in  their  preparation  a  broad  Christian  schol- 
arship, a  spirit  of  catholicity  in  harmony  with  the  preva- 
lent spirit  of  unity  among  Christians,  and  a  clear  view  of 
the  varied  wants  of  the  several  departments  of  Sunday- 
school  instruction.  These  demands  are  certainly  kept  in 
view  in  the  preparation  of  our  Lesson  Helps.  The  man- 
agement of  our  Sunday-school  literature  is  known  for  its 
catholicity  as  much  as  for  its  Methodism.  The  founder 
of  Chautauqua  is  the  chief  spirit  in  the  production  of  our 
Lesson  Helps,  and  every  part  of  the  series  exhibits  his 
genius  for  Sunday-school  work.  In  the  Lesson  Comment- 
ary we  have  for  pastors,  superintendents,  teachers,  adult 
scholars,  and  studious  young  people  a  compendious  compi- 
lation of  the  choicest  thoughts  in  all  literature  bearing 
upon  the  particular  passages  in  hand,  all  fused  and  illumi- 
nated by  the  glowing  spirit  of  a  prince  among  teachers. 


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Again,  in  the  Sunday-school  Journal  will  be  found  every 
needed  explanation,  together  with  invaluable  hiuts  guiding 
to  the  most  effective  teaching  of  the  lesson.  The  Lesson  Leaf, 
for  intermediate  scholars,  presents  an  astonishing  amount 
of  helpful  direction  for  profitable  home  study  and  success- 
ful class  recitation.  The  infant  classes  are,  if  possible, 
even  better  provided  for  in  the  artistic  Picture  Lesson  Paper, 
and  the  Leaf  Cluster  supplementing  the  Hints  to  Primary 
Teachers  in  the  Sunday -scl tool  Journal. 

If,  now,  we  add  The  Study — a  quarterly  magazine  for 
superintendents,  primary-class  teachers,  the  Bible  class,  and 
normal  class — a  magazine  paclced  with  hints,  facts,  sugges- 
tions, outlines,  and  concise  papers  on  needed  topics,  we 
have  a  series  of  Lesson  Helps  intended  to  meet  the  wants 
of  all  our  Sunday-school  workers.  And  what  is  lacking 
may  almost  certainly  be  found  in  the  Normal  Guide. 

Our  Lesson  Helps  are  equal  in  matter,  arrangement, 
convenience  of  handling,  beauty  of  appearance,  to  the 
very  best  in  the  field.  They  will  meet  the  wants  of  Meth- 
odist Sunday-schools  incomparably  better  than  any  others. 
They  are  our  helps.  They  present  the  catholic  faith  from 
our  Methodistic  stand-point.  They  familiarize  our  Sunday- 
school  scholars  with  our  statements  of  Christian  doctrine. 
They  recognize  the  Methodistic  method  of  saving  souls. 
They  inculcate  the  Methodistic  definitions  of  religious  be- 
lief, experience,  and  duty.  They  are  none  the  less  Chris- 
tian and  catholic  for  being  positively  Methodistic ;  for 
Methodism  is  an  insistance  not  so  much  upon  non-essentials 
of  creed  as  upon  the  essentials  of  Christian  life.  In  our 
helps  we  need  not  so  much  to  dogmatize  upon  our  doc- 
trines as  to  assume  them  and  apply  them  in  the  teaching 
to  save  the  scholars  from  sin. 

There  is  much  current  sentimentalism  concerning  unde- 
nominational lesson  helps.  However,  few  are  more  taken 
by  this  sentiment  than  such  as  have  these  undenomina- 
tional wares  for  sale.    It  requires  little  astuteness  to  dis- 


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cover  that  even  undenominational  lesson  helps  must  have 
a  bias  of  their  own.  Dr.  Whedon  once  wrote,  "  None 
but  an  idiot's  brain  can  approach  a  subject  blank  of  pre- 
possessions." Even  an  undenominational  writer  must  ap- 
proach his  theme  from  some  point  of  view.  Undenomi- 
national notes  on  Scripture  must  either  be  confined  to 
threadbare  truisms,  or  allowed  to  run  into  the  absurdities 
of  liberalism,  of  all  dogmatisms  the  baldest,  or  they  must 
fail  to  maintain  the  undenominational  character.  No  man 
holds  the  Catholic  faith  completely  and  purely ;  we  have 
not  yet  attained  that  perfection  of  knowledge ;  infallibility 
is  not  yet  apparent  among  us;  and  while  we  are  "com- 
passed with  infirmities,"  it  is  safer,  it  is  wiser,  it  is  more 
honest  to  avow  each  his  stand-point,  that  all  may  know 
the  limitations  of  his  view  by  which  his  thought  and  doc- 
trine are  determined  to  be  thus  and  thus.  True  undenom- 
inationalism  is  an  impossible  attainment  for  any  positively 
Christian  man,  and  is  not  found  in  any  human  production. 
As  Methodists,  exercising  our  undoubted  right  to  be  Meth- 
odists, granting  to  all  others  equal  liberty  in  perfect  char- 
ity, we  may  and  we  ought  to  use  our  own  Lesson  Helps. 
Our  denominationalism  should  not  degenerate  into  secta- 
rianism ;  denominationalism,  truly  so  called,  is  the  chari- 
table exercise  of  denominational  beliefs  and  methods  for 
the  saving  of  souls  ;  undenominationalism  is  not  unity,  but 
confusion ;  not  agreement,  but  disorderly  commingling  of 
ill-adjusted  elements.  Using  our  Lesson  Helps,  we  shall 
strengthen  ourselves  and  our  children  in  the  doctrinal  be- 
liefs of  our  fathers,  we  shall  accept  their  positive  convic- 
tions of  religious  truth,  and  we  shall,  we  trust,  enter  into 
their  definite  experience  of  salvation. 

N.  S.  ALBRIGHT. 


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XVII. 

THE  IDEAL  SUNDAY-SCHOOL  LIBRARY. 

In  the  Sud day-school  libraries  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  there  are  about  two  millions  of  volumes. 
These  books  are  kept  in  unceasing  circulation,  and  are 
constantly  read  by  certainly  not  less  than  three  million 
souls.  Most  of  their  readers  are  children  and  youth.  In 
not  a  few  instances,  as  jn  sparse  country  populations,  they 
furnish  nearly  all  the  reading  of  the  families  to  which  the 
children  and  youth  of  the  Sunday-school  belong.  Hence, 
if  it  be  true  that  every  book  which  has  sufficient  life  in  it 
to  command  readers  is  a  sower  of  good  or  evil  seed,  of 
noble  or  ignoble  sentiments,  of  true  or  false  conceptions 
of  life  and  duty,  then  the  fact  that  these  libraries  are  act- 
ive forces  incessantly  working  good  or  ill  in  a  field  which 
contains  the  hope  of  Methodism,  is  not  to  be  treated 
lightly,  thoughtlessly,  or  indifferently,  but  is  of  grave  im- 
portance, demanding  the  serious  consideration,  not  only  of 
Sunday-school  administrators,  but  also  of  Church  officers, 
pastors,  and  bishops. 

It  can  not  be  truthfully  affirmed  that  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  has  been  inattentive  to  this-  question. 
True  to  her  Wesleyan  lineage  she  has  made  large,  even 
liberal,  provision  through  her  Book  Concerns  and  official 
editors,  for  supplying  her  Sunday-school  libraries  with  such 
books  as  are  best  suited  to  their  legitimate  purposes.  Her 
publications  in  this  department  may  safely  challenge  both 
examination  and  comparison  with  those  of  any  other 
American  or  European  Church.  Were  her  libraries  gen- 
erally composed  of  these  issues  there  would  be  small  occa- 


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sion  for  anxiety.  Un fortunately  it  is  far  otherwise.  There 
is  a  spirit  abroad  which,  especially  since  our  late  war,  de- 
mands a  lighter,  less  serious,  less  instructive,  more  exciting, 
and  more  miscellaneous  literature  for  children  and  youth 
than  is  either  healthy  for  young  minds  or  fitting  for  a 
Church  press  to  produce.  Very  naturally  such  produc- 
tions, like  sweetmeats  and  richly  seasoned  food,  are  more 
relished  by  the  young  than  healthy  mental  food.  And, 
very  foolishly  in  a  vast  number  of  schools,  their  false  taste 
finds  sympathy  among  the  youthful  librarians  and  teachers 
to  whose  management  the  library  is  too  often  consigned. 
These  parties,  no  doubt,  mean  well;  but  being  governed 
more  by  the  clamor  of  the  scholars  for  what  they  call  "  in- 
teresting books"  than  by  the  high  considerations  Avhich 
ought  to  control  the  selection  of  books,  and  which  the 
Church  herself  is  bound  to  respect,  they  have  become,  in 
this  matter,  a  power  greater  than  the  Church.  They  scout 
her  authority  by  rejecting  her  publications,  rush  to  the 
general  book-market,  and  fill  their  libraries  with  works, 
many  of  which,  though  sweet  to  the  taste  of  the  unre- 
newed heart,  are,  like  the  prophet's  roll,  productive  of 
bitter  results  in  the  hearts  of  their  readers. 

This  state  of  things  is,  to  quote  a  passage  from  a  speech 
by  the  profound  Milton,  "  of  greatest  concernment  in  the 
Church.  .  .  .  For  books  are  not  absolutely  dead  things, 
but  do  contain  a  potency  of  life  in  them  to  be  as  active  as 
that  soul  whose  progeny  they  are ;  nay,  they  do  preserve 
as  in  a  vial  the. purest  efficacy  and  extraction  of  that  living 
intellect  that  bred  them.  I  know  they  are  as  lively  and  as 
vigorously  productive  as  those  fabulous  dragon's  teeth ; 
and,  being  sown  up  and  down,  may  chance  to  spring  up 
armed  men."  Granting  the  truth  of  these  weighty  words — 
and  who  will  dispute  it  ? — the  Church  is  bound  by  her  ob- 
ligations to  the  Christ,  and  by  her  hope  of  continued  life 
and  purity,  to  do  what  she  rightly  can  to  curb  the  spirit 
which  is  filling  her  school  libraries  with  books  that  do 


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not  make  either  for  righteousness  or  for  Methodism,  but 
which  do  make,  if  not  for  positive  wickedness,  yet  for 
the  strengthening  of  that  disrelish  for  a  pure  ethical  and 
spiritual  life  which  is  the  bane  of  human  nature. 

But  what  can  the  Church  do  ?  Under  a  system  of  pure 
voluntaryism  like  ours,  she  can  not  regulate  this  or  any 
other  question  touching  the  laity  by  compulsory  authority. 
But  she  can  speak  with  a  persuasive  authority  that  every 
loyal  Methodist  will  feel  bound  to  respect.  She  can  so 
place  the  question  before  the  brethren  who  manage  her 
Sunday-school  libraries  as  to  induce  them  to  regulate  their 
purchases  of  books,  not  by  a  desire  to  gratify  the  senseless 
clamor  of  unreflective  minds,  but  by  the  only  sound  prin- 
ciple on  which  a  Sunday-school  library  can  be  properly 
founded  and  maintained.  What  is  that  principle?  What 
is  the  true  idea  of  the  Sunday-school  library? 

The  Sunday-school  as  an  institution  is  sui  generis.  There 
is  nothing  like  it  on  earth.  Born  of  that  divine  love  which 
finds  delight  in  feeding  the  lambs  of  the  flock  of  Christ,  it 
is  the  organism,  the  sphere,  in  which  the  Church  seeks  to 
impart  a  religious  education  to  the  young.  Its  text-book  is 
the  Word  of  God.  To  make  the  meaning  of  that  Holy 
Book  clear  to  the  understanding,  to  impress  its  precepts  on 
the  conscience,  and  so  to  present  the  ever-living  Christ  to 
the  affections  as  to  awaken  love  to  his  person  and  submis- 
sion to  his  will  are  the  leading  points  included  in  its  con- 
ception of  the  religious  education  it  aims  to  impart.  Thus 
the  end  it  seeks  for  each  of  its  pupils  is  his  intelligent 
Christian  discipleship,  and  through  that  discipleship  to 
train  him  up  to  the  highest  type  of  manhood. 

Now,  the  ideal  Sunday-school  library,  being  of  and  for 
this  institution,  must  also  be  sui  generis.  Unlike  the  com- 
mon-school library,  the  public  circulating  library,  or  even 
the  college  library,  it  must  not  be  secular  and  miscella- 
neous, but  religious.  It  has  no  right  to  be  in  a  Sunday-school 
except  as  an  auxiliary  for  promoting  its  great  end.  Every 


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book  on  its  shelves  not  conceived  and  written  in  the  spirit 
of  Christ,  but  in  the  spirit  of  the  world,  is  an  intruder, 
because  antagonistic  to  the  spirit  which  animates,  or  should 
animate,  the  school.  Every  volume  that  breathes  a  tainted 
ethical  tone,  or  suggests  rationalistic  doubts,  or  gives  dis- 
torted portrayal  to  virtuous  character,  or  a  favorable  aspect 
to  wrong  action,  or  presents  the  spiritual  life  as  an  unreal 
and  superstitions  fancy,  is  utterly  out  of  place  in  it,  because 
every  such  book  is  hostile  to  the  principle  on  which  it  is 
founded.  Nor  have  strictly  secular  books  any  right  in  it, 
inasmuch  as  they  can  not  subserve  the  religious  ends  sought 
by  the  school.  The  strictly  secular  volume,  even  though 
moral  and  truthful,  is  as  much  out  of  place  in  the  library 
as  secular  studies  would  be  in  the  class.  In  short,  the 
auxiliary  relationship  of  the  library  to  the  school  excludes 
from  it  every  book  which  is  not  in  harmony  with  the  pur- 
pose of  the  Church  to  make  her  Sunday-schools  the  places 
in  which  she  strives  to  give  religious  education  to  her 
youth. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  Sunday-school  library  should  be 
composed  of  books  which  may  be  properly  called  religious, 
and  of  no  others.  By  religious,  however,  we  do  not  mean 
books  on  experimental  godliness  only.  We  use  the  term 
in  its  broader  sense  as  including  every  topic  which  relates 
to  the  interpretation  of  the  Word  of  God,  to  the  explana- 
tion and  enforcement  of  its  doctrines,  precepts,  and  expe- 
rience, to  the  history  of  the  Church  of  Christ,  to  the  deeds 
of  the  great  leaders,  the  faithful  confessors,  the  heroic 
martyrs,  the  courageous  reformers,  the  devoted  missiona- 
ries, and  the  saintly  souls  who  have  kept  and  spread  the 
faith  through  the  ages.  Thus  an  ideal  Sunday-school 
library  would  include  books  on  history,  geography,  biog- 
raphy, travels,  moral  science,  the  conduct  of  life,  Chris- 
tian civilization,  poetry,  art,  and  natural  science,  so  far 
as  these  topics  have  relations  to  the  divine  Word  and  to 
the  Church  of  Christ.    Books  on  those  topics  are  germane 


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to  an  institution  organized  for  the  promotion  of  Christian 
education,  provided  they  are  written  in  a  Christian  spirit 
and  with  a  clearly  defined  purpose  to  commend  revealed 
truth  to  the  faith  and  affection  of  their  readers. 

This  latter  point  can  not  be  too  strongly  emphasized 
by  every  purveyor  for  the  Sunday-school  library,  inas- 
much as  the  world  is  deluged  with  books  on  the  above- 
named  topics,  which,  though  ably,  eloquently,  attractively 
written,  are  adulterated  with  the  poison  of  skepticism, 
worldliness,  and  hostility  to  spiritual  religion.  Happily 
for  the  Churches,  their  authors  and  presses  during  the  last 
half-century  have  brought  forth  an  abundant  supply  of 
books  on  those  themes,  which,  for  the  purposes  of  religious 
education,  are  equally  able,  and  are  imbued  with  the  spirit 
of  Christianity.  So  that  they  who  place  poisonous  books 
in  the  Sunday-school  library  are  without  excuse.  "  They 
have  no  cloak  for  their  sin." 

Does  this  theory  exclude  fiction  from  the  ideal  library? 
Not  all  fiction  absolutely.  To  exclude  every  tning  that 
may  be  included  under  the  word  fictitious  would  shut  out 
those  portions  of  Holy  Writ  which,  though  true  in  sub- 
stance, are  fictitious  in  form.  The  sublime  book  of  Job, 
though  true  in  substance,  is  dramatic,  and  therefore,  ficti- 
tious, in  form.  So  are  the  allegories  and  parables  and 
some  of  the  poetical  books  of  Scripture.  Yet  they  are  preg- 
nant with  inspired  truths,  and  consequently  very  full  of 
authoritative  instruction.  Bunyan's  inimitable  "  Pilgrim's 
Progress"  is  fictitious  in  the  same  qualified  sense.  So  are, 
by  no  means  all,  but  very  many  of  the  religious  stories 
written  for  children  and  youth  by  modern  Christian 
waiters.  Hence,  fiction  in  form,  which  in  substance  is  not 
fiction,  but  substantial  truth  aiming  to  elucidate  and  en- 
force moral  precepts,  and  to  impart  high  ideals  of  char- 
acter, is  not  to  be  wholly  rejected. 

But  fiction  not  written  to  instruct,  to  awaken  noble 
impulses  and  aspirations,  to  promote  reflection  on  the 


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duties  and  true  ends  of  human  existence,  but  merely  to 
amuse,  should  be  sternly  rejected.  The  Sunday-school  is 
not  a  playground.  Its  administrators,  while  bound  to 
make  its  instruction  attractive,  dare  not,  if  intelligent  and 
conscientious,  make  the  amusement  of  its  pupils  oue  of  its 
objects,  either  in  teaching,  in  addresses  or  by  means  of 
books  which  are  only  amusing  fictions.  Such  books  injure 
the  intellect,  because  they  require  no  effort  of  attention, 
and  beget  the  enervating  habit  of  reading,  not  for  self- 
improvement,  but  only  for  amusement.  This  habit  dwarfs 
the  mind,  is  fatal  to  mental  growth,  because  it  creates 
disinclination  to  that  concentration  of  thought  which  is 
essential  to  the  acquisition  of  knowledge.  Hence,  such 
fictions  beget  distaste  for  solid  reading.  Most  of  them 
contain  false  pictures  of  life,  monstrous  improbabilities, 
highly  wrought  incidents,  that  aim  simply  to  excite  emo- 
tion. The  effect  of  such  excitation  is  necessarily  injuri- 
ous to  character  in  that,  not  being  caused  by  real  objects, 
and  not  being  made  the  stimulus  to  right  action,  it  pro- 
duces nothing  better  than  a  sickly  sentimentality,  which 
substitutes  the  heaving  of  a  sigh  or  the  shedding  of  a  tear 
for  the  practice  of  real  virtue.  Surely,  to  place  books  so 
injurious  both  to  brain  and  heart  in  a  Sunday-school  library 
is  to  pervert  it,  to  make  it  the  instrument,  not  of  religious, 
but  of  irreligious  education.    It  is  profanation. 

But  children  and  youth  demand  such  books,  it  is  said. 
This  is  no  doubt  true  of  most  who  have  been  permitted  to 
taste  such  poisoned  fruit.  But  are  such  demands  to  be 
accepted  by  the"  Sunday-school  as  substitutes  for  the  grand 
principles  on  which  it  is  based  ?  Rather  is  not  the  correc- 
tion of  such  vicious  taste  one  of  the  purposes  of  the  relig- 
ious education  it  professes  to  impart  ?  It  is  true,  as  Words- 
worth remarks,  that  "  delight  and  liberty  is  the  simple 
creed  of  childhood."  But  why  are  the  young  gathered  into 
the  school  but  to  be  taught  that  their  creed  is  misleading, 
that  their  "  liberty"  is  not  to  become  licensed  like  the  colts 

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210  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


of  wild  asses,  but  a  gift  from  God,  which  they  are  required 
to  regulate  with  the  bridle  of  duty  ?  and  also  that  their  "de- 
light," to  be  real  aud  lasting,  must  be  derived,  not  from  sip- 
ping poisoned  sweets,  but  from  drinking  rich  draughts  of 
the  fountain  of  life  ?  No  ;  the  library  must  not  be  governed 
by  the  children's  creed  of  liberty  and  delight,  but  by  the 
obligation  of  the  Church  to  use  it  as  an  instrument  of 
religious  education. 

Still  it  may  be  urged  that  if  exciting  fictions  are  ex- 
cluded, and  none  but  substantially  truthful  books  admit- 
ted, the  library  will  be  neglected,  that  pupils  will  refuse 
the  latter  class  of  books.  If  this  were  true,  it  would  be 
better  to  place  a  seal  on  the  door  of  the  library  or  to  ban- 
ish it  forever  from  the  school,  than  to  give  books  tainted 
with  moral  or  spiritual  poison  to  the  young.  But  is  it 
true?  May  not  much  of  this  demand  for  exciting  fictions 
be  traced,  as  suggested  above,  to  the  sympathy  with  such 
works  felt  by  the  young  men  who  usually  act  as  librarians, 
by  many  Sunday-school  teachers,  and  even  by  some  worldly 
minded  or  unthinking  pastors  ?  Instead  of  correcting 
the  false  ideas  and  tastes  of  the  scholars,  too  many  such 
parties  have  supported  their  demand  by  saying  of  useful 
books,  "  Yes,  they  are  dry  and  uninteresting;"  or,  "  They 
are  goody  goody  books."  Had  they  attempted  with  intelli- 
gent kindness  to  point  out  the  value  and  healthful  attract- 
iveness of  such  works,  would  they  not  have  silenced  this 
clamor  and  induced  their  pupils  to  read  with  pleasure  and 
profit  books  they  now  reject  because  their  teachers  and 
others  have  unwisely  censured  them?  Such  is  our  opin- 
ion ;  and  we  estimate  that  teacher  very  low  who  can  not, 
by  a  few  decisive  words,  set  an  entire  class  to  reading  any 
properly  written,  useful  book.  Any  right-minded  superin- 
tendent, worthy  of  his  responsible  office,  can,  in  like  man- 
ner, move  a  wThole  school  to  ask  for  any  such  volume  by 
a  few  judicious  words  spoken  from  his  desk.  Still  more 
influential  are  the  words  of  pastors  commending  religious 


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books  in  weighty  words  to  the  parents  of  his  Sunday 
scholars. 

Let  the  Church,  therefore,  zealously  set  herself  to  the 
task  of  banishing  all  unwholesome  fiction  from  her  Sunday- 
schools.  Let  her  also  set  her  face  against  the  excessive  use 
of  even  such  qualified,  and  in  themselves  unobjectionable, 
fictions  as,  in  response  to  the  demands  of  public  opinion, 
her  presses  have  already  produced.  A  dinner  should  not 
be  all  dessert ;  neither  should  stories,  however  excellent, 
constitute  the  staple  of  any  one's  reading.  The  body  of 
our  libraries  should  be  composed  of  books  that  contain 
living  words,  truths  that "  perish  never."    O  blessed  books, 

"That  combine  in  one 
All  ages  past,  and  make  one  live  with  all: 

By  you  we  do  confer  with  who  are  gone, 
And  the  dead-living  into  council  call; 

By  you  the  unborn  shall  have  communion 
Of  what  we  feel  and  what  doth  us  befall." 

In  the  ideal  library  of  a  Methodist  Sunday-school  there 
will  be  a  selection  of  the  books  pertaining  to  our  Church 
history  and  to  the  lives  of  our  Church  fathers  sufficient  to 
make  our  young  people  not  bigots,  but  familiar  with  the 
devout  spirit  and  successful  zeal  which  gave  birth  and 
growth  to  Methodism.  It  may  be  truthfully  said  of  our 
Church  that 

"Great  men  have  been  among  us;  hands  that  penned, 
And  tongues  that  uttered  wisdom — better  none." 

Therefore,  though  we  should  not  glory  in  men,  yet  we  may 
rejoice  in  the  fact  that  we  have  in  our  history  a  record  emi- 
nently honorable,  filled  with  glorious  achievements,  attract- 
ive to  the  imagination,  and  full  of  spiritual  inspiration. 
As  Bishop  Jewel  said  of  the  deeds  of  the  Reformers,  who 
were  Methodists  in  spirit  though  not  in  name,  so  may  we 
properly  say  of  the  works  of  our  Church  fathers,  1 'Let 
these  never  be  forgotten  ;  let  your  children  remember  them 


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forever."  To  secure  that  remembrance,  and  to  aid  in 
transmitting  their  spirit  to  posterity,  a  goodly  number  of 
our  Church  biographies  and  Church  histories  should  be 
constantly  kept  in  our  libraries.  And  may  it  be  truth- 
fully said  that  no  Methodist  Sunday-school  library  possesses 
ideal  completeness  unless  a  liberal  number  of  such  works 
is  on  its  shelves! 

It  scarcely  needs  saying  that  in  an  ideal  Sunday-school 
library  the  books  should  be  properly  classified.  The  extent 
of  such  classification,  like  the  size  of  the  library  itself, 
must  be  determined  by  the  magnitude  of  the  school. 
Hence,  no  rule  can  be  given  applicable  alike  to  the  school 
of  twenty  children  on  the  frontiers  and  to  the  highly  or- 
ganized city  school  of  a  thousand  or  more  pupils,  ranging 
from  the  infant  class  to  adult  students  of  Holy  Writ.  It 
must  suffice  here,  therefore,  to  say  that  there  should  be 
departments  in  the  library  for  the  simple  literature  of 
childhood ;  ibr  books  written  down  to  the  newly  awakened 
intellectual  capacities  of  boys  and  girls;  for  the  partially 
developed  minds  of  young  people;  and  for  the  more 
thoughtful  readers  of  the  adult  classes.  But  the  princi- 
ples already  stated  respecting  the  religious  character  of  the 
Sunday-school  book  should  be  as  rigidly  applied  to  the 
adult  as  to  the  infant  department.  From  all,  not  merely 
the  anti-religious  but  also  the  irreligious  volume  should  be 
conscientiously  excluded. 

■This  fidelity  to  the  principle  and  aims  of  the  Sunday- 
school  in  the  higher  department  of  the  1  ibrary  will  be 
objected  to  by  those  who  think  it  desirable  for  the  Church 
to  furnish  its  adherents  with  books  sufficient  to  meet  all 
their  intellectual  requirements.  But  whoever  views  the 
question  broadly  and  practically  will  see  that  this  theory 
is  Utopian.  It  is  not  clear  that  its  object  is  even  desira- 
ble, because  there  will  always  be  unnumbered  books  needed 
by  professional  men,  by  artists,  by  mechanics,  by  men  of 
special  culture  and  of  marked  idiosyncrasies,  which  the 


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213 


Church  could  not  supply  for  lack  of  means,  and  ought  not 
to  furnish  if  she  could.  To  attempt  it  would  be  idle,  if 
for  no  other  reasou  than  the  unwillingness  of  the  people  to 
submit  to  any  such  curtailment  of  their  intellectual  liberty. 
The  sphere  of  the  Church  is  limited  to  men's  spiritual 
nature  and  moral  action.  And  when  her  libraries  are 
well  furnished  with  literature  which  is  ample  to  meet  the 
demands  of  the  higher  nature  of  her  adherents,  to  excite 
and  gratify  a  taste  for  solid,  useful  reading,  with  a  corre- 
sponding distaste  for  sensational  and  corrupt  reading,  she 
has  reached  the  limit  of  her  obligations  in  this  direction. 
She  has  then  performed  the  high  duty  of  providing  an 
antidote  to  the  vile  books  which,  like  the  frogs  in  Egypt, 
come  from  the  Satanic  press,  seeking  admission  into  every 
unguarded  household  in  the  land. 

DANIEL  WISE. 


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XVIII. 

RELIGIOUS  NEWSPAPERS. 

This  is  justly  called  the  age  of  the  printing-press. 
The  dissemination  of  printed  matter  is  a  growing  wonder. 
It  can  not,  however,  be  taken  for  granted  that  the  reading 
public  demands  printed  matter  in  the  permanent  form  of 
books,  or  even  in  the  comparatively  durable  form  of  mag- 
azines. It  is  but  rarely  that  a  book  reaches  a  sale  of  even 
one  hundred  thousand  in  our  population  of  fifty  millions. 
Making  a  large  estimate  for  the  private  circulation  of  a 
book  once  sold,  it  will  be  seen  at  once  that  even  a  popular 
author  is  not  actually  read  by  one  in  a  hundred  of  his 
fellow-countrymen.  The  people  read  but  few  books,  and 
those  few  not  books  of  reflection,  of  science,  of  history,  or 
of  devotion,  but  rather  books  of  travel,  of  adventure,  of 
romance,  and  the  lighter  forms  of  fiction — books  affording 
to  the  occasional  thoughtful  reader  needed  diversion  and 
recreation,  but  actually  dissipating  mental  and  moral  power 
in  the  habitual  reader.  So  of  the  better  class  of  literary 
and  scientific  magazines ;  their  limited  circulation  proves 
that  they  are  practically  unknown  to  the  common  people, 
and  are  not  habitually  read  by  the  majority  of  even  intel- 
ligent people,  so  called.  Scholars,  professional  men,  and 
the  exceptionally  thoughtful,  read  valuable  substantial 
books  and  magazines ;  but  the  common  people — indeed,  all 
the  people — are  informed,  if  at  all,  through  the  newspaper. 
The  reflective,  the  originative,  the  inventive,  the  schol- 
arly, write  books  of  value,  thus  permanently  preserving 
knowledge  for  the  world's  use.  But  in  books  alone  this 
knowledge  would  never  be  popularly  disseminated.    It  is 


RELIGIOUS  NEWSPAPERS. 


215 


not  the  author  of  books,  but  the  paragraphist,  writing 
often  second-hand  matter,  who  finally  brings  knowledge  to 
the  people.  The  people  are  not  acquainted  with  books; 
they  regard  books  as  luxuries,  the  last  things  to  be  pro- 
cured (unless  almost  forced  upon  them  by  agents  person- 
ally pushing  the  circulation);  they  are  not  accustomed  to 
read  books,  they  tire  at  it ;  they  find  the  chapters  too  long 
and  the  book  too  large,  and  defer  the  reading  to  days  of 
leisure  that  never  come. 

The  people  are,  nevertheless,  not  content  to  be  ignorant. 
The  great  middle  class,  the  vast  majority  of  the  people,  is 
resolutely  bent  upon  informing  itself  by  reading;  but  the 
reading,  to  be  acceptable,  must  be  attractive,  stimulating, 
even  sensational,  and,  above  all  things  else,  it  must  be 
fresh.  In  cities  and  towns  reached  by  the  telegraph  and 
daily  mail  news  of  yesterday  is  no  news,  discoveries  of  last 
month  or  last  week  are  old,  opinions  of  last  season  are 
stale;  and  this  craze  for  novelties  invades  the  rural  dis- 
tricts— many  a  farmer  insists  upon  having  a  daily  news- 
paper. No  doubt  there  is  much  in  all  this  that  is  un- 
heal thful.  This  constant  and  irrepressible  demand  for  the 
newest  news,  the  very  latest  novelties  in  science  and  opin- 
ion, all  to  be  served  to  the  public  in  sensational  head-lines, 
is  evident  sign  of  a  feverish  and  fickle  public  taste,  and 
can  not  become  the  permanent  mental  habit  of  a  truly 
great  people.  However,  while  it  lasts,  the  Church,  in  no 
way  responsible  for  its  existence  or  its  evil  results,  must 
not  regard  it  with  imbecile  laments  and  denunciations,  but 
must  wisely  make  the  best  of  it.  In  the  order  of  Prov- 
idence this  has  become  a  newspaper  age ;  and  it  is  not  of 
faith  to  lament  it,  but  to  acknowledge  it,  and  to  utilize  it 
for  the  saving  of  the  world. 

The  secular  newspaper  is  at  best  secular  in  spirit ;  it  is 
well  if  it  be  not  atheistic  or  immoral.  The  province  of 
the  secular  newspaper  is  to  publish  the  news  in  which  its 
constituency  is  interested,  and  to  disseminate  such  infor- 


216  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


mation  as  will  serve  the  purposes  of  its  reading  patrons. 
Every  thing  is  published  from  the  secular  stand-point,  cer- 
tainly not  the  Christian  stand-point — well  if  it  be  not  anti- 
Christian  !  Unless  the  popular  mind  is  to  be  thoroughly 
secularized  and  de-Christianized,  if  not  anti-Christianized, 
the  Church  must  undertake  the  work  of  informing  the 
publie  of  passing  events  and  current  opinion  from  the 
Christian  point  of  view.  This,  the  Christian  assumes,  is 
the  true  stand-point  whence  to  observe  men,  their  deeds, 
and  their  doctrines.  If  one  is  a  Christian  at  all,  he  holds 
that  there  is  a  divine  origin  and  control  of  nature,  a 
divine  hand  in  the  government  of  human  society,  and  a 
divine  purpose  and  meaning  in  human  history;  and  it  is 
neither  bigotry  nor  superstition  to  demand  the  recognition 
of  God  and  his  Christ  in  the  treatment  of  current  history 
and  opinion.  The  spirit  of  the  times  is  eminently  secular, 
though  the  reaction  from  materialism  and  false  liberalism 
is  fast  setting  in.  The  religious  newspaper  is  a  necessity 
in  an  age  of  secular  newspapers,  as  much  as  the  Sunday, 
or  Bible,  or  religious  school  is  a  necessity  in  an  age  of 
common-schools,  as  much  as  the  religious  book  is  a  neces- 
sity in  an  age  of  infidel  books,  as  much  as  the  religious 
oration  or  sermon  is  a  necessity  in  all  the  ages  of  secular 
eloquence.  The  Church  can  not  dispense  with  this  pow- 
erful arm  of  offense  and  defense.  The  Christian  needs  it 
for  his  own  armament  in  a  secular  age;  he  needs  it  for 
the  defense  of  those  he  is  providentially  set  to  guard  from 
the  evils  of  the  world ;  he  needs  it  for  urging  the  truth 
of  Christianity  in  a  practicable  form  upon  the  indifferent 
or  the  inimical. 

As  there  is  no  adequate  estimate  to  be  put  upon  the 
influence  of  the  secular  newspaper,  so  widely  disseminated, 
so  eagerly  read,  so  it  is  impossible  to  overstate  the  urgency 
of  the  requirement  laid  upon  the  Church  to  carry  the  re- 
ligious newspaper  into  all  Christian  homes,  into  all  homes. 
Even  where  the  Bible  is  left  unread  by  a  worldly  and  in- 


RELIGIOUS  NEWSPAPERS. 


217 


different  or  infidel  household,  the  religious  newspaper  may- 
find  a  reading;  for  its  news  is  as  reliable  and  ought  to 
be  as  fresh  and  as  concisely  stated  as  in  the  secular  paper. 

The  Church,  however,  can  not  push  her  papers  any 
more  than  her  books  upon  the  people.  The  Christian 
public  ought  to  demand  the  Christian  newspaper,  the  re- 
ligious family  ought  to  require  a  religious  information.  No 
man  of  the  world  can  afford  to  be  without  his  secular 
paper,  giving  the  state  of  the  market  in  his  particular  line, 
furnishing  the  information  needed  in  the  prosecution  of  his 
public  or  private  aims,  and  bringing  from  all  over  the 
world  the  news  interesting  him.  No  Christian,  awake 
to  the  providential  character  of  the  age,  alive  to  his  duty 
in  an  age  of  Christian  missions  and  charities,  engaged  in 
the  urgent  prosecution  of  the  Gospel  publication  throughout 
the  world,  can  afford  to  be  without  his  religious  newspaper, 
informing  him  of  the  current  tendencies  of  religious  life 
and  doctrine,  of  the  current  events  of  religious  enterprise 
and  benevolence  and  evangelization,  of  the  current  news 
of  the  Church  at  home  and  abroad.  The  secular  news- 
paper is  indispensable  to  the  business  man,  to  the  politi- 
cian, to  the  well-informed  man  of  every  rank  and  calling; 
so  indispensable  is  the  religious  newspaper  to  every  Chris- 
tian who  has  an  interest  in  the  coming  of  Christ's  kingdom 
and  would  gladly  know  of  its  progress  through  the  world. 

19  EDITOR. 


218  METHODISM  AM)  LITERATURE. 


XIX. 

THE  CHURCH  LYCEUM. 

I  believe  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  the  only 
one  that  has  the  plan  of  a  Lyceum,  and  the  means  of  its 
successful  inauguration  and  maintenance  incorporated  into 
its  Book  of  Discipline.  This  Church  has  ever  been  consid- 
erate of  the  temporal  and  intellectual  condition  of  its  mem- 
bers. Beginning  among  the  poor,  the  broken-hearted,  the 
captives,  the  blind  and  bruised,  it  began  at  once  to  con- 
sider how  physical  evils  could  be  abated,  and  then  how 
ignorance  could  be  enlightened .  The  vast  literature  of  the 
Church  shows  how  faithfully  it  has  wrought  for  this  end. 

The  Lyceum  meets  a  real  want.  The  mind  yields  the 
best  results  to  training.  The  body  gets  strength  to  lift 
two  thousand  pounds,  the  voice  ability  to  give  all  the 
fifths  between  two  adjacent  notes,  the  eye  clearness  to 
discern  TT2V00  of  an  inch,  and  the  hand  skill  to  measure 
saoooooff  of  an  inch,  but  the  mind  is  the  best  field  for  care- 
ful culture.  The  Lyceum  is  one  of  the  gymnasia  for  its 
exercise. 

The  mind  especially  needs  to  be  trained  to  quickness 
of  action,  so  that  all  its  treasures  shall  be  at  any  instant 
under  control.  It  was  one  of  the  secrets  of  Napoleon's 
power  that  he  could  instantly  form  new  combinations  to 
meet  sudden  emergencies.  As  the  fencer  must  have  an 
eye  quick  as  light,  and  a  hand  for  defense  quick  as  a 
thrust,  so  must  the  man  in  the  quicker  realm  of  thought 
be  instantly  ready.  How  provoking  is  that  habit  of  mind 
that  gives  only  what  the  French  call  esprit  d'escalier — the 
bright  replies  one  thinks  of  after  he  has  left  the  company 


THE  CHURCH  LYCEUM. 


219 


and  is  on  the  stairs  going  home.  Many  of  our  possible 
Miltous  are  mute  and  inglorious  for  want  of  training. 

The  Lyceum  is  admirably  adapted  to  develop  this 
quickness  of  mind.  It  has  been  so  used  in  all  ages.  The 
Greeks  taught  by  the  Socratic  method.  In  the  earlier 
English  universities  the  first  scholars  were  called  wrang- 
lers because  of  their  discussions.  They  have  since  degen- 
erated into  contestants  for  mathematical  prizes.  Henry 
Clay  said,  "  I  owe  my  success  in  life  to  one  single  fact, 
namely,  that  I  commenced  and  continued  for  years  the 
process  of  daily  speaking,  not  unfrequently  in  some  distant 
barn,  with  the  ox  or  horse  for  my  auditors.  It  is  to  this 
practice  of  the  great  art  of  all  arts,  that  I  am  indebted  for 
the  leading  impulses  that  shaped  my  entire  destiny." 

Some  preaching  has  degenerated  into  orations  and 
essays;  not  so  was  Christ's,  but  word  answering  word  until 
men  could  no  longer  dissent,  nor  even  ask  questions. 

There  is  no  country  that  demands  ability  to  speak  like 
America.  Every  man  is  a  sovereign,  and  may  utter  his 
decrees;  every  man  is  a  citizen,  and  may  influence  every  one 
in  the  city  to  adopt  his  views.  The  best  positions  await 
the  man  able  to  speak  wisely  and  well.  Encyclopedia 
wisdom  may  rest  in  the  brain  of  a  man,  and  be  as  useless 
as  the  unmined  gold  in  the  Black  Hills.  The  owner  of 
millions  starves.  But  the  man  able  to  utter  his  wisdom, 
be  it  ever  so  little,  in  persuasive  speech,  has  the  useful 
coin  that  supplies  his  every  want. 

It  is  the  privilege  of  many  Americans  to  say  with  Mrs. 
Browning — 

"I  have  known  the  pregnant  thinkers  of  this  time, 
And  stood  by  breathless,  hanging  on  their  lips, 
When  some  chromatic  sequence  of  fine  thought 
In  learned  modulation  phrased  itself 
To  an  unconjectured  harmony  of  truth." 

This  is  the  age  of  ideas,  and  every  man  should  seek  a 
forceful  utterance  of  them.  Especially  should  the  Church 
see  to  it  that  the  young  have  every  advantage  of  training. 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


The  Church  is  the  school  of  all  schools,  teaching  health, 
cleanliness,  temperance,  hardihood,  wisdom,  holiness — that 
is,  perfect  manhood.  The  perfect  man  approximates  the 
unity  of  thinking,  speaking,  and  embodiment  that  God 
has.  Sin  separates  feeling  from  action,  so  that  men  may 
see  peril  and  weep,  but  not  moye  to  safety.  Christianity 
makes  speech  and  deed  to  be  instantly  responsive  to  feeling 
and  thought.  The  very  instincts  find  quick  expression  in 
a  character  so  pure  that  it  has  nothing  to  conceal.  All 
the  right  instincts  of  youth  should  find  full  gratification 
under  the  sanction  of  the  Church.  Childhood  inclines  to 
abundant — some  may  say  superabundant — speech;  youth  is 
the  time  to  associate  it  with  wisdom,  so  that  it  shall  not 
always  be  a  babbling  brook,  but  a  broad  river,  freighted 
with  the  intellectual  wealth  of  all  ages. 

A  full  discussion  of  the  Lyceum,  its  origin,  aim,  ob- 
jections, value,  disciplinary  methods,  course  of  study,  etc., 
may  be  found,  in  an  admirable  work,  "The  Church 
Lyceum,"  by  Kev.  T.  B.  Neeley. 

H.  W.  WARREN. 


CHURCH  AND  TEMPERANCE. 


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XX. 

RELATION  OF  OUR  CHURCH  LITERATURE 
TO  THE  TEMPERANCE  WORK. 

The  literature  of  an  organization  is  its  voice;  and  it 
is  through  her  literature  that  the  Church  speaks  to  the 
million,  in  a  manner  more  persuasive  and  convincing  than 
even  through  her  pulpit. 

The  ministry  of  the  consecrated  pen  is  second  to  none ; 
not  even  the  clergy  can  present  a  commission  more  di- 
rectly from  God  thau  that  which  endows  the  hand  and 
brain  which  fashions  the  literature  of  his  Church. 

The  Church  is  known  better  through  this  medium  than 
any  other.  It  does  not  matter  so  much  what  her  pulpit 
utters  as  what  her  press  scatters  abroad ;  and  it  is  reserved 
for  her  pen  to  indorse  or  condemn  every  word  which  falls 
from  the  preacher  in  the  pulpit  or  the  minister  at  the  altar. 

The  position  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  on  the 
temperance  question  does  not  need  to  be  defined,  at  this 
day,  by  any  living  man  or  woman.  She  has  already  gone 
upon  record  in  terms  which  can  not  be  mistaken.  The 
temperance  law  of  the  Church  regulates  the  sentiment  of 
her  people  and  ministry,  and  speaks  through  her  tongue 
and  pen,  so  that  her  pulpit  everywhere,  and  every  page 
of  her  literature,  utters  the  one  truth  that  the  Gospel  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  antagonizes  not  only  sin  in  general, 
but  in  particular,  and  counts  the  drink  traffic  and  use  in 
every  form  as  among  the  works  of  the  devil  which  He 
came  to  destroy. 

The  Methodist  Church  is  a  unit  on  this  question.  She 
may  be  divided  into  branches  on  many  other  points ;  but 


222  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


on  the  temperance  question  she  stands  as  one,  and  always 
in  the  vanguard.  Among  the  first  principles  laid  down 
for  the  guidance  of  those  who  would  walk  with  her  people 
is  this,  namely :  "It  is  therefore  expected  of  all  who  con- 
tinue  therein  that  they  should  continue  to  evidence  their 
desire  of  salvation  ...  by  avoiding  evil  of  every 
kind  .  .  .  such  as  .  .  drunkenness,  buying  or 
selling  spirituous  liquors;  or  drinking  them,  unless  in  cases 
of  extreme  necessity." 

As  early  as  1787  personal  habits  of  temperance  (which 
was  interpreted  to  mean  "  using  only  that  kind  and  degree 
of  food"  and  "drink  which  is  best  for  both  body  and  soul," 
using  "  water  fijr  common  drink,"  and  wine  only  "  medic- 
inally or  sacramentally ")  were  strictly  enjoined  upon  all 
ministers.  In  1792  members  were  prohibited  from  treat- 
ing, and  in  1796  the  following  was  placed  upon  the  records 
and  became  a  part  of  the  law  of  the  Church:  k'If  any 
member  of  our  society  retail  or  give  spirituous  liquors,  and 
any  thing  disorderly  be  transacted  under  his  roof  on  this 
account,  the  preacher  who  has  the  oversight  of  the  circuit 
shall  proceed  against  him  as  in  the  case  of  other  immoral- 
ities; and  the  person  accused  shall  be  cleared,  censured, 
suspended,  or  excluded,  according  to  his  conduct,  as  in 
other  charges  of  immorality.  N.  B.  Far  be  it  from  us  to 
wish  or  endeavor  to  intrude  upon  the  proper  religious  or 
civil  liberty  of  any  of  our  people ;  but  the  retailing  of 
drams  to  customers  when  they  call  at  the  stores  are  such 
prevalent  customs  at  present,  and  are  productive  of  so 
many  evils,  that  we  judge  it  our  indispensable  duty  to  form 
a  regulation  against  them.  The  cause  of  God,  which  we 
prefer  to  any  other  consideration  under  heaven,  absolutely 
requires  us  to  step  forth  with  humble  boldness  in  this 
respect." 

In  1828  the  Rev.  Wilbur  Fisk  presented  to  the  Gen- 
eral Conference  a  preamble  and  resolutions,  which  were 
adopted,  expressing  the  strongest  sentiments  against  the 


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223 


use  of  and  traffic  in  strong  drink,  and  in  favor  of  reform 
in  every  respect;  and  these  resolutions  have  been  added 
to  by  every  General  Conference,  and  nearly  every  annual 
and  district  conference,  from  that  day  to  this.  In  1832  a 
conference  committee  on  temperance  was  appointed,  and 
has  since  become  one  of  the  regular  committees  appointed 
as  a  matter  of  course  at  the  opening  of  every  Methodist 
conference,  and  its  report  is  annually  added  to  the  litera- 
ture of  the  Church,  and  is,  like  a  voice,  constantly  reiter- 
ating the  truth  that  there  can  be  no  fellowship  between  us 
and  the  demon  of  rum. 

A  temperance  address,  delivered  before  the  General 
Conference  of  that  year,  was  ordered  to  be  printed  in  a 
tract  for  circulation ;  and  in  1836  the  preachers  and  mem- 
bers were  recommended  by  the  General  Conference  to  pro- 
cure a  copy  of  a  volume  which  had  been  prepared  by  the 
Kev.  Dr.  Edwards,  secretary  of  the  American  Temperance 
Society,  consisting  of  a  compilation  of  facts  concerning  the 
rum  traffic,  and  effects  of  total  abstinence. 

We  might  glean  from  all  the  journals  of  the  Church, 
and  occupy  the  entire  space  allotted  to  this  article  with 
extracts  from  the  utterances  of  the  men  who  laid  broad 
and  deep  the  foundations  of  our  Church  literature  in  the 
truth  of  God,  as  revealed  in  the  human  body  and  in  his 
law,  as  well  as  in  the  Gospel  of  Jesus. 

We  will  content  ourselves,  however,  with  the  record 
of  the  General  Conference  at  Cincinnati,  May,  1880.  Ac- 
tion was  taken  concerning  the  sacramental  wine  as  follows, 
"Let  none  but  the  pure  unfermented  juice  of  the  grape 
be  used  in  administering  the  Lord's-supper,  whenever  prac- 
ticable ;"  and  to  be  inserted  in  the  Discipline  the  following 
as  "expressive  of  the  general  sentiment  of  the  Church  on 
the  temperance  question:"  "Temperance,  in  its  broader 
meaning,  is  distinctively  a  Christian  virtue,  Scripturally 
enjoined.  It  implies  subordination  of  all  the  emotions, 
passions,  and  appetites  to  the  control  of  reason  and  con- 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


science.  Dietetically,  it  means  a  wise  use  of  useful  articles 
of  food  and  drink,  with  entire  abstinence  from  such  as  are 
known  to  be  hurtful.  Both  science  and  human  experience 
unite  with  the  Holy  Scriptures  in  condemning  all  alcoholic 
beverages  as  beiug  neither  useful  nor  safe.  The  business 
of  manufacturing  and  vending  such  liquors  is  also  against 
the  principles  of  morality,  political  economy,  and  the  pub- 
lic welfare.  We  therefore  regard  voluntary  total  abstinence 
from  all  intoxicants  as  the  true  grouud  of  personal  tem- 
perance, and  complete  legal  prohibition  of  the  traffic  in 
alcoholic  drinks  as  the  duty  of  civil  government.  We 
heartily  approve  of  all  lawful  and  Christian  efforts  to  save 
society  from  the  manifold  and  grievous  evils  resulting 
from  intemperance,  and  earnestly  advise  our  people  to  co- 
operate in  all  such  measures  as  may  seem  to  them  wisely 
adapted  to  secure  that  end.  We  refer  to  our  General 
Rule  on  this  subject,  and  affectionately  urge  its  strict  ob- 
servance upon  all  our  members.  Finally,  we  are  fully 
persuaded  that,  under  God,  hope  for  the  ultimate  success 
of  the  temperance  reform  rests  chiefly  upon  the  combined 
and  sanctified  influence  of  the  family,  the  Church,  and 
the  State." 

This  body  further  resolved : 

"  1.  That  we  recommend  the  organization  of  juvenile 
temperance  societies  in  all  congregations  and  Sunday- 
schools. 

"  2.  That  we  recognize  the  necessity  of  healthy  tem- 
perance literature,  and  therefore  recommend  the  publica- 
tions of  the  National  Temperance  Association,  of  New 
York,  to  the  patronage  of  our  people  and  Sunday-schools. 

"  3.  That  we  gratefully  recognize  and  heartily  com- 
mend the  ministry  of  the  gifted  and  godly  women  of  the 
Churches  in  the  work  of  temperance,  and  in  their  crusade 
against  the  liquor  traffic." 

But  the  fathers  of  the  Church  have  not  stopped  here 
in  their  teaching.    As  ever,  they  plant  their  standard  on 


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225 


the  outposts ;  and  they  have  dared  to  speak  against  a  vice 
even  more  widely  spread  and  more  insidious  than  that  of 
driuk.  And  to-day  every  candidate  for  the  ministry  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  expected  to  answer  in 
the  affirmative  the  following  question,  "  Will  you  wholly 
abstain  from  the  use  of  tobacco?" 

I  have  dwelt  thus  at  some  length  on  the  teaching  of 
the  fathers,  and  have  given  this  bit  of  Church  history, 
because  these  principles  have  been  built,  like  precious 
stones,  into  the  foundation  of  our  literature,  and  fastened, 
like  nails  in  a  sure  place,  beyond  the  reach  of  even  Church 
legislation.  It  is  from  such  root  as  this  that  all  the 
branches  of  our  wide-spreading  system  of  books,  papers, 
periodicals — books  of  poetry,  history,  essay,  and  story — 
text-books,  and  leaflet,  and  pictured  page — all  the  foliage, 
blossom,  and  fruit  of  our  literature,  and  its  seed  for  future 
sowing,  have  sprung. 

As  is  the  Church,  so  is  her  literature;  and  as  the  relation 
of  the  Church  to  the  temperance  reform,  so  is  the  relation 
of  her  literature  to  the  temperance  work.  The  Church  is 
radically  opposed  to  the  liquor  traffic;  therefore,  the  nature 
of  the  literature  of  the  Church  is  to  help  the  work  of  tem- 
perance reform  everywhere,  in  the  home  and  state,- as 
well  as  in  the  hearts  and  lives  of  men ;  and  I  believe  fully 
-  that  if  the  press  of  the  Church  could  reach  the  masses 
with  its  influence,  if  this  continent  could  be  "  sown  knee- 
deep"  with  the  pages  written  with  her  truth,  that  the  days 
of  the  drink  traffic  would  be  numbered. 

All  that  has  been  done  thus  far  in  furnishing  the 
people  with  correct  temperance  information,  scientific,  po- 
litical, statistical,  as  well  as  moral,  has  been  done,  directly 
or  indirectly,  by  the  Churches,  and  a  large  share  has 
passed  over  our  own  denominational  lines. 

Let  us  look  for  a  moment  at  the  extent  of  our  Church 
literature,  and  from  this  estimate  compute,  if  we  can,  its 
value,  and  consider  its  relation  to  the  temperance  work. 


226  ME  THODISM  AND  LIT  ERA  T  TIRE. 


"We  publish,  of  weekly  newspapers,  annually,  more 
than  two  hundred  thousand  copies ;  of  monthly  period- 
icals, about  two  hundred  thousand  ;  of  Sunday-school  helps, 
at  least  two  millions ;  and  have  thirteen  hundred  and  sev- 
enty-five books  in  our  catalogue. 

Look  at  this  vast  agency,  whose  lines  of  communication 
seem  to  extend  to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth,  and 
estimate,  if  you  can,  its  power,  if  properly  applied. 

In  the  work  of  reform  the  pen  is  surely  mightier  than 
the  sword,  and  possesses  a  power  in  molding  the  morals 
of  the  masses  such  as  can  be  claimed  by  no  other.  It  is 
because  the  popular  literature  of  the  age  has  been  corruj)t 
that  vice  has  so  strong  a  foothold  among  the  people.  It 
is  because  the  literature  of  the  Church  has  not  been  taken 
out,  sent  out,  crowded  out,  scattered  every -where,  that  her 
principles  of  purity  and  truth  have  not  as  yet  prevailed 
among  the  majorities;  because  her  seed-corn  has  been  kept 
too  much  in  the  barn,  that  the  harvest  does  not  yet  meet 
the  need  of  a  hungry  world. 

We  are  painfully  conscious  of  a  need,  not  that  the 
Church  should  speak  more  truly,  more  positively,  more 
convincingly,  but  that  her  words  should  be  carried  out  to 
those  who  have  never  yet  heard  her  voice  or  language ; 
and,  also,  that  she  should  speak  in  a  tongue  that  will  be 
comprehended  by  those  who  know  only  the  dialect  of  vice. 
It  is  often  needful  that  the  Church  should  expound  to  the 
men  of  the  w?orld  the  text  of  the  truth,  which  is  like 
household  words  to  those  whom  she  has  brought  up,  so  that 
the  careless,  the  profane,  the  drunken,  and  the  illiterate 
shall  not  be  able  to  misunderstand  her  meaning.  "Tem- 
perance" should  never  be  left  with  an  ambiguous  signifi- 
cation, which  may  or  may  not  be  "license"  or  "  prohibi- 
tion," moderate  self-indulgence  or  total  abstinence.  Every 
term  employed  needs  to  be  clear  cut,  comprehending  all 
of  truth,  antagonizing  all  of  error.  To  some  of  those  for 
whom  the  temperance  work  of  to-day  is  done,  the  whole 


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scheme  of  the  Gospel  needs  to  be  translated,  as  into  a 
foreign  tongue. 

The  importance  of  meeting  this  need  will  be  understood 
when  we  remember  the  influence  of  the  Church  in  the 
world.  She  is  recognized,  even  by  the  unthinking  and  the 
impure,  as  the  representative  of  God;  and  she  speaks  with 
an  authority  that  has  been  awarded  to  no  other.  That 
which  she  unloosens  is  unloosed ;  that  which  she  binds  is 
bound  in  the  consciences  of  men.  That  which  she  or  one 
of  her  teachers  sanctions  is  quoted  as  lawful,  even  by  the 
unbelieving.  Her  teachings  are  the  foundation  of  all  gov- 
ernments; it  is  the  sentiment  of  her  votaries  that  makes 
or  unmakes  the  law  of  the  land.  Hence  the  absolute  ne- 
cessity that  the  sword  of  her  written  word,  than  which  no 
weapon  is  more  mighty  in  this  battle  with  rum,  should  be 
charged  into  every  hiding-place  of  the  power  of  her  foe. 
It  is  essential  to  the  success  of  the  temperance  reform  that 
her  literature  should  meet  the  needs  of  the  whole  people; 
not  simply  those  who  come  to  her  for  instruction,  who  buy 
her  books  and  take  her  periodicals,  but  those  upon  whom 
they  must  be  thrust  in  the  haunts  of  sin.  She  must  pre- 
pare to  meet  all  shades  of  thought  and  imthought,  all 
classes  and  grades  of  intellect,  all  degrees  of  ignorance, 
with  the  clear  aggressive  force  of  well  selected  and  plainly 
spoken  truth,  which  shall  be,  in  its  influence,  like  the  con- 
stant shining  of  a  light  that  grows  into  the  cloudless  glory 
of  perfected  day. 

There  are  places  where  the  voice  of  the  Church  is  not 
yet  heard ;  and,  wherever  she  is  silent,  there  vice  and  un- 
belief are  heard,  tainting  the  air  with  the  decaying  fruit 
of  corrupt  thought.  There  are  such  places  even  in  our 
own  land,  under  the  shadow  of  our  own  temples;  such 
places  in  our  own  pews,  and  in  the  garden-spot  of  our 
Sunday-schools ;  places  where  her  voice  for  prohibition  and 
total  abstinence  has  not  been  heard  or  understood,  because 
the  truth  was  not  translated  into  the  language  they  knew. 


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And  to-day  the  real  relation  of  Church  literature  to  the 
temperance  work  must  be  that  of  a  missionary,  going  out 
into  fields  that  might  at  first  seem  altogether  foreign ; 
learning  languages  which  she  had  not  known  before — the 
language  of  utter  need,  hopeless,  helpless  need,  of  souls 
bound  in  the  prison  of  vice  with  strong  chains  of  depraved 
appetites  and  fiery  passions ;  not  the  appetites  and  passions 
of  the  human  body  simply,  but  those  planted  therein  by 
the  demon  of  rum,  and  which  so  far  outrank  all  others 
that  the  same  terms  do  not  seem  to  apply  to  both,  and  so 
that  it  almost  seems  that  the  same  Gospel  remedy  which 
meets  the  one  can  not  touch  the  other.  This  need  found 
expression  one  day  on  the  lips  of  a  man  in  these  terms : 
"  You  talk  about  God  being  able  to  save  folks;  but  I  tell 
you  it 's  one  thing  for  him  to  be  able  to  save  you  and 
the  ladies  of  the  Temperance  Union,  and  it 's  another 
thing  for  him  to  be  able  to  save  a  fellow  like  me.  I  guess 
if  I'm  ever  saved  he'll  have  to  invent  some  new  way." 
A  woman  said  to  me,  "But  I'm  such  a  toiv  down  sinner 
God  '11  find  it  a  dirty  job  to  do  any  thing  for  me,  I  reckon." 

The  Gospel  teaching  which  reaches  the  understandiug 
of  such  men  and  women  must  be  such  as  takes  cognizance 
of  burned-out  nerves,  vitiated  blood,  cooked  brains,  all  in 
the  leading  of  overgrown  passions  and  of  appetites  of  mon- 
strous proportions ;  of  a  fettered  soul  in  a  poisoned  body, 
which  must  wait  the  slow  processes  of  elimination  and  up- 
building, through  natural  functions,  for  deliverance.  The 
devil  of  rum  has  taken  his  work,  on  the  human  body, 
outside  the  region  where  God's  grace,  as  commonly  taught, 
operates.  He  will  do  his  work  in  spite  of  God's  grace, 
if  lie  can  get  the  chance;  and  this  fact  renders  necessary  a 
line  of  Gospel  exposition  for  the  victims  of  vice  such  as 
we  have  never  had,  which  shall  emphasize  the  doctrine  of 
the  "redemption  of  the  body"  even  in  this  life,  which 
shall  reveal  Christ  as  him  who  cleansed  the  defiled  temph,  as 
well  as  raised  the  dead. 


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A  minister  once  said  to  me:  "I  am  learning,  in  this 
work  for  these  men,  that  the  most  of  what  I  had  learned 
for  use  in  my  ministry  has  to  be  entirely  laid  aside,  or 
translated  to  meet  the  necessities  of  the  case.  I  have 
nothing  in  my  library,  outside  my  Bible,  that  is  of  any 
practical  use — absolutely  nothing  that  I  could  hand  to  such 

a  man  as  F  ,  with  any  faith  that  it  would  meet  the 

want,  unless  I  should  sit  beside  him  and  expound  as  I  read." 

We  find  this  often  true ;  and  we  need  a  literature  in 
which  the  most  common  terms  of  our  religion  shall  be 
simplified,  in  which  the  most  familiar  doctrines,  and  the 
plainest  truths  of  salvation  shall  be  so  illuminated  that  the 
most  darkened  mind  shall  comprehend,  and  the  most  de- 
graded shall  find  room  for  hope. 

We  need  especially  to  double  our  forces  along  the  lines 
of  our  Sunday-school  work;  for  it  is  here  that  our  great 
enemy  makes  his  most  persistent  attcak.  ' 'Line  upon 
line,  line  upon  line,  precept  upon  precept,  precept  upon  pre- 
cept, here  a  little  and  there  a  little,''  something  with  every 
Sunday-school  lesson,  something  in  every  leaflet  and  book, 
which  shall  plead  for  purity,  and  reason  of  righteousness 
and  temperance.  Let  the  boys  and  girls  of  our  Sunday- 
school  know  every  thing  that  science,  or  philosophy,  or 
political  economy,  or  the  law,  or  religion— every  thing  that 
polite  culture,  or  beauty  of  face  and  form,  or  success  in 
life — can  teach  or  require  concerning  the  drink  use  and 
traffic.  Compel  them  to  enter  the  path  of  vice,  if  at  all, 
in  such  a  blaze  of  light  and  knowledge  that  no  responsi- 
bility shall  remain  with  any  tongue  or  pen  for  unrevealed 
truth. 

One  thing  we  must  never  forget.  But  for  the  Church 
there  would  have  been  no  temperance  reform.  Nobly 
has  she  thus  far  met  her  obligation  to  the  world  of 
letters  and  the  reformers  of  every  age ;  and  the  past  and 
present  are  auguries  for  the  future.  Her  literature  has 
been  like  good  seed  sown  beside  many  waters ;  sown  early 


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and  late ;  sown,  often,  without  hope  of  any  increase  for 
her  own  reaping,  but  only  that  God's  kingdom  might  be 
enriched.  Her  literature  lias  been  the  nursing  mother,  the 
faithful  guide  with  staff  and  lantern,  to  the  temperance 
reform.  It  was  because  her  pen  had  written,  in  learned 
treatise,  in  history  and  song  and  story,  keeping  God's  truth 
always  before  us  like  an  angel  in  the  way,  and  ringing  in 
the  air  above  us  like  a  clear-toned  bell,  that  the  women 
of  the  Church  had  the  courage  and  faith  to  march  and 
pray  and  organize  against  the  saloon. 

And  if  the  day  ever  dawns  when  the  power  of  the 
demon  is  broken,  and  home  and  state  are  free,  it  will  be 
because  the  Church  has  been  faithful  to  her  trust  as  the 
representative  of  Him  who  was  "  manifested  to  destroy 
the  work  of  the  devil." 

S.  M.  I.  HENRY. 


THE  MORAL  NATURE. . 


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XXI. 

LITERATURE  AND  ITS  RELATION  TO  THE 
MORAL  NATURE. 

Literature  and  the  moral  nature  Lave  in  their  history 
evinced  a  very  intimate  relationship ;  but  the  thinking 
world  is  divided  upon  the  question  as  to  which  is  the  cause 
and  which  the  effect.  The  Christian  occupies  a  point  of 
view  from  which, he  feels  justified  in  affirming  that  the 
brightest  culture  is  favored  and  developed  by  the  highest 
moral  attainments,  while  the  opposer  insists  upon  it  that 
"  ignorance  is  the  mother  of  devotion."  The  inductive 
process  of  reasoning  should  here  be  considered  satisfactory 
and  convincing.  If  in  different  ages  and  in  widely  separated 
parts  of  the  world  the  same  plant  be  found  growing  in  a 
soil  with  identical  chemical  constituents,  we  should  be  war- 
ranted in  concluding  that  the  soil  was  indispensable  to  the 
plant.  So  we  find  that  the  best  civilization  is  identical 
with  the  highest  moral  culture  on  both  sides  of  the  ocean 
and  in  the  isles  of  the  sea,  and,  at  the  expense  of  vast 
treasure  and  many  cultured  and  precious  lives,  the  Church 
lias  demonstrated  that  the  shades  of  ignorance  recede  before 
the  widening  horizon  of  Bible  light. 

Nor  is  this  result  contradicted  by  the  distinction  of 
classic  lands  in  ancient  times  ;  for  while  it  is  freely  admitted 
that  in  poetry  and  art  they  excelled,  it  will  be  insisted  that 
the  highest  civilization  consists  not  so  much  in  faithful  imi- 
tations as  in  noble  and  elevating  ideals  ;  not  in  art  crea- 
tions, but  in  the  sacredness  with  which  human  life  is 
regarded.  No  civilization  is  worthy  the  name  which  does 
not  protect  the  life.    Herein  is  a  crowning  glory  of  ours. 


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It  stands  by  the  cradle  of  infancy  and  steadies  the  steps 
of  age,  while  for  the  sick  and  orphaned  it  founds  the  hos- 
pital and  the  asylum.  These  and  kindred  humanitarian 
institutions  were  unknown  to  Roman  senator  and  Grecian 
philosopher.  On  the  other  hand,  life  with  them  was  with- 
out value.  Self-destruction  and  gladiatorial  combat  were 
the  legitimate  results  of  their  one-sided  culture. 

But  we  are  answered  that  the  pre-eminence  of  our  civ- 
ilization is  attributable  to  the  increase  of  the  centuries. 
But  we  have  only  to  point  to  China  for  the  fallacy  of  this 
assertion.  The  unchanging  current  of  its  national  life  ap- 
pears to  issue  from  the  very  portals  of  Noah's  ark — if  we 
credit  their  pretensions,  though  none  will  dispute  the  claim 
to  a  very  high  antiquity — and  yet  its  thousands  of  years 
have  not  been  able  to  relieve  its  waters  of  their  slimy  im- 
purities. It  demands  something  more  than  time,  and  that 
something  is  a  proper  culture  of  the  moral  nature. 

No  clearer  proof  of  any  proposition  can  be  adduced 
than  is  afforded  of  this  in  the  mission  of  Luther.  It  was 
to  unchain  the  Bible,  and  open  its  pages;  it  was  to  swing 
conscience  on  the  highest  pivot  of  the  soul — a  conscience 
enforcing  a  judgment  enlightened  by  the  truth  of  God's 
Word.  Now,  what  was  the  result  to  literature.  Take 
Germany  alone  :  in  six  years  from  the  promulgation  of 
the  ninety-five  theses  at  Wittenberg  the  number  of  annual 
publications  increased  twelvefold.  The  dark  ages  were 
past,  and  the  morning  had  come. 

AVe  have  said  that  literary  and  moral  relations  are 
interactive,  and  while  deep-seated  and  enlightened  moral 
convictions  are  agencies  by  which  the  race  is  lifted  up  to 
higher  planes,  these  same  convictions  are  susceptible  of 
strengthening  and  culture. 

Ours  is  a  day  when  every  idea  has  its  literature.  The 
press  stands  at  the  center  of  thought  and  influence.  Its 
impressions  may  well  be  called  leaves,  since  they  are  scarce 
excelled  in  number  by  the  decorations  which  Spring  hangs 


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upon  our  trees.  These  are  classified  by  certain  moral  qual- 
ities. Some  are  religious,  some  agnostic,  and  others  infidel. 
It  is  worthy  of  emphasis  that  every  system  has  its  press, 
and  that  its  activity  and  the  sacrifice  and  consecration  by 
which  it  is  run  are  not  always  proportioned  to  the  purity 
of  the  system  or  its  direct  contribution  to  the  welfare  of 
the  race. 

Our  Christianity  is  thus  thrown  upon  the  defensive. 
It  must  use  enlightened  natural  means,  and  not  depend 
exclusively  or  generally  upon  its  supernatural  origin.  A 
cool  and  discriminating  age  will  listen  to  and  weigh  the 
asserted  claim  very  much  as  it  would  form  an  opinion  con- 
cerning any  temporal  enterprise,  without  considering  the 
claim  to  a  divine  origin.  True,  the  appeal  must  be  finally 
made  to  the  conscience ;  but  the  heart  can  not  be  reached 
while  obstructions  crowd  the  head.  It  will  be  remembered 
we  do  not  claim  that  all  Christian  literature  should  be 
apologetic  and  on  the  defensive  ;  for  after  it  has  taken  the 
parapet  it  will  advance  and  plant  the  cross  in  the  very 
citadel,  the  heart.  Thus  we  find  that  a  religious  litera- 
ture is  a  necessity.  Our  people  will  read  and  be  im- 
pressed, and  one  of  the  most  important  of  all  questions  is, 
What  shall  they  read  ?  This  depends  upon  the  answer  to 
another  question,  namely,  Why  should  they  read?  Our 
reply  is,  Read  for  discipline,  information,  and  culture.  In 
each  of  these  departments  are  two  general  classes  of  books, 
similar,  it  may  be,  in  intellectual  strength  and  facility  of 
expression,  but  widely  different  in  reference  to  their  moral 
spirit.  One  will  ignore  all  reference  to  the  agency,  and 
even  the  name,  of  God.  -These  books  abound  with  compli- 
ments to  nature ;  nature  is  their  deity.  Its  affinities  are 
omniscience,  its  force  is  omnipotence,  and  its  law  is  justice. 
Nature  builds  the  world,  educates  its  animals,  and  fur- 
nishes its  men.  These  opinions  are  paraded  by  men  who 
have  observed  widely  and  thoughtfully.  They  are  skilled 
in  the  laboratory,  and  are  all  the  more  insidious  because 

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of  their  familiarity  with  the  elements,  forces,  and  organ- 
isms, of  nature.  Their  facts  can  not  be  denied,  their  brill- 
iant discoveries  must  be  recognized,  and  still  the  problem 
remains  as  to  the  best  means  of  counteracting  their  implied 
and  intended  disrespect  to  religion.  There  are  a  half- 
dozen  men  who,  because  of  their  brilliant  endowments  and 
bold  championship,  make  the  impression  that  they  are 
vastly  more  numerous  and  important  than  they  are,  while 
the  truth  is  that  for  every  one  of  them  there  is  a  score  of 
patient  and  skillful  observers,  who  become  equally  familiar 
with  nature,  and  twine  their  most  brilliant  discoveries  into 
garlauds  for  the  Savior's  cross.  Isaac  Newton,  who  lifted 
a  ladder  to  the  stars  upon  which  the  latest  astronomer 
mounts  to  observe,  was  a  devout  Christian.  Tyndall  tells 
us  that  Faraday,  the  acknowledged  high-priest  in  the  tem- 
ple of  nature,  who  was  at  home  in  the  most  intricate  lab- 
yrinths, and  was  familiar  with  her  most  profound  chemical 
mysteries,  with  the  simplicity  of  childhood,  asked  the 
Father's  blessing  on  the  food  as  the  guest  and  he  were 
seated  at  the  table.  Then,  if  it  be  true  that  Christian 
scientists  are  more  numerous  and  equally  well  informed, 
we  are  not  under  the  necessity  of  drinkiug  from  these  god- 
less sources ;  for,  though  clear  as  icicles,  the  latter  will  be 
found  unnaturally  cold.  How  fortunate  if  the  realm  of 
truth  can  have  the  sheen  of  God's  glory  resting  upon  it ; 
if,  with  our  geology,  we  can  have  Dana's  faith ;  if  by  the 
author  of  "  Ecce  Ccelum"  the  heavens  be  flooded  with  a 
brilliancy  unequaled  since  the  day  of  Chalmers,  unless  we 
except  our  own  Bishop  Warren,  whose  study  of  the  sky  is 
but  pleasing  ' '  Recreations  in  Astronomy!"  We  can  not 
write  a  catalogue,  but  insist  that  works  of  this  spirit  should 
displace  such  as  are  manifestly  unfriendly  to  the  higher 
wants  of  the  soul. 

It  is  a  matter  of  glad  surprise  that  books  of  this  class 
are  daily  multiplying,  and  proposing  to  supplement  the  ab- 
sence of  early  educational  opportunities.    Science  and  art 


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have  been  popularized  ;  they  have  beeu  relieved  of  tech- 
nicalities and  tedious  repetitions,  and  yet  left  intact  so  far 
as  essentials  for  a  general  acquaintance  with  the  truth  is 
concerned.  They  are  adjusted  to  all  years  and  every  ca- 
pacity. They  broaden  the  outlook  of  age,  and  sharpen  the 
curiosity  of  youth  for  a  closer  intimacy  with  the  priests  in 
nature's  wonderful  temple. 

Another  important  purpose  to  be  served  by  our  litera- 
ture is  the  culture  of  the  faith.  We  refer  to  faith  in  its 
widest  and  also  in  its  usual  significance  as  the  soul's  accept- 
ance of  Christ. 

The  swirls  of  conflict  are  about  centers  of  religious 
dogma.  Matter  or  spirit,  immortality  or  annihilation,  hap- 
piness for  all  or  retribution  for  sin,  inspiration  of  the  Scrip- 
tures or  a  low  plane  of  Bible  origin,  are  live  questions. 
Their  discussions  fill  the  magazines  and  the  more  evanes- 
cent periodicals.  Our  young  people  become  more  or  less 
infected  by  the  heresies.  They  appear  to  be  called  to  pass 
through  a  period  in  life  when  a  false  pride  and  strange 
confidence  tend  presumptuously  to  discard  the  old  beliefs. 
They  forget  that  many  experiments  have  demonstrated 
that  there  can  be  no  morality  without  a  religion.  They 
fail  to  remember  that  these  old  convictions  are  intuitive, 
and  not  simply  the  result  of  education.  It  is  well  for  the 
Christian  world  to  stop  and  ask  what  is  to  be  done.  The 
danger  is  not  imaginary.  The  air  is  full  of  the  spirit  of 
skepticism.  It  is  boastful  and  threatening,  and  because 
of  its  though tfulness  is  deserving  of  attention.  Older  per- 
sons acquainted  with  history  know  that  these  vaunts  have 
stood  on  the  coins  of  the  old  Roman  Empire,  were  ex- 
pressed by  Celsus,  Porphyry,  Julian,  and  in  recent  times 
by  Hume,  Paine,  and  the  latter's  faithful  shadow ;  and 
that  each  in  its  turn  has  failed  to  materialize,  and  so 
should  have  at  least  become  more  modest,  though  they 
have  never  been  more  obtrusive  and  clamorous  than  now. 
This  field  has  not  been  neglected  by  tauetified  learning. 


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It  has  traveled  amid  the  ruins  of  fallen  empires,  and 
delved  among  the  foundations  of  buried  cities.  It  has 
scanned  the  prophetic,  and  hearkened  attentively  for  the 
historic  echo.  It  has  unearthed  the  leaves  of  earth's 
buried  tablet,  and  traced  its  ancient  history  in  the  light 
of  the  Mosaic  revelation.  It  has  waited  patiently  for  a 
light  from  scientific  discovery  to  shine  upon  "  the  wheel 
broken  at  the  cistern,"  "  the  sweet  influences  of  the 
Pleiades,"  the  weight  of  the  winds.  The  patient  waiting 
has  been  rewarded ;  for  comparatively  recent  discoveries 
make  clear  the  anticipations  of  those  oldest  Scriptures. 
Daniel  waited  long  for  the  vindication  of  his  history,  but 
in  1854  it  was  unearthed  at  Ur  of  the  Chaldees.  The 
same  testimony  explained  why  he  took  the  third  instead 
of  the  second  chariot.  Thus  we  find  an  abundance  of 
truth  with  which  to  counteract  the  tendency  to  unbelief. 
There  is  Bishop  Newton,  with  his  satisfactory  testimony  to 
the  spirit  of  prophecy  ;  and  Bishop  Watson,  with  his  clear 
refutation  of  the  coarse  cavilings  of  Thomas  Paine,  which 
are  equally  forcible  as  a  reply  to  his  faithful  shadow. 
There  is  a  modern  work  by  Chancellor  Dawson,  which, 
with  a  very  wealth  of  learning,  establishes  the  beautiful 
harmony  between  the  earth  and  Genesis.  We  fearlessly 
affirm  that  he  who  has  mastered  the  contents  of  these 
three  books  will  have  the  modern  skeptic  at  his  mercy, 
since  they  furnish  his  quiver  from  the  armory  of  God's 
Word,  and  show  him  how  skillfully  to  use  the  same.  But 
who  sees  these  volumes?  On  what  shelves  are  they  found? 
What  young  people  have  so  much  as  read  their  titles? 
And  why  not  ?  for  not  only  are  they  convincing  in  the 
realm  of  the  spiritual,  but  they  add  largely  to  one's  fund 
of  general  information.  In  them  Herodotus  tells  us  what 
occurred  beyond  the  realm  of  Bible  lands ;  the  explorer 
lifts  the  veil  from  buried  cities,  while  scientists  give  us  the 
clearest  interpretation  of  the  wonders  which  belong  equally 
to  nature  and  revelation.    Wre  need  to  go  back  to  a  more 


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237 


solid  literature,  something  which  will  challenge  the  powers 
of  mind,  and  contribute  toward  that  intellectual  store  in 
which  is  true  imperial  dignity.  The  volumes  we  name  are 
only  typical.  I  would  not  stop  with  them,  but  others 
should  add  their  treasures  to  mind,  and  so  sway  the  heart 
before  the  power  of  truth.  No  person  disposed  to  work 
the  mines  of  truth  need  be  at  the  mercy  of  inflated 
skepticism. 

But  judicious  selections  may  greatly  strengthen  the 
hand  which  grasps  the  cross.  Many  persons  neglect  their 
faith  as  though  it  was  necessarily  an  evergreen  wrhose  na- 
ture would  endure  the  fiercest  blasts  of  sarcasm  and  rid- 
icule. Why  any  Christian  professor  should  pay  a  brilliant 
rhetorician  to  abuse  him  is  mysterious,  and  specially  when 
we  remember  that  the  faith  is  a  delicate  exotic,  which  can 
not  thrive  short  of  the  care  one  bestows  on  a  rose  or  ge- 
ranium. The  faith  must  be  cultured.  And  here  again 
the  response  to  our  persistent  need  will  lead  us  to  the 
library;  always  remembering,  however,  to  "pray  without 
ceasing."  Keligious  biography  is  of  incalculable  advantage 
in  this  regard.  The  Church  of  Christ  has  a  marvelous 
history,  extending  through  the  ages,  into  all  climes,  and 
among  people  of  every  tongue.  Every  feature  of  history 
interlinks  with  this.  Its  leading  characters  have  towered 
into  the  heights  of  influence  and  power,  and  made  a  valu- 
able contribution  to  the  world's  imperishable  records.  But 
it  is  not  of  valor  in  directing  the  energies  of  sanctified 
will  to  which  we  now  so  specially  refer  as  conveying  the 
lesson  through  which  the  faith  may  be  cultivated.  The 
world  may  challenge  even  these  in  comparison  with  its 
proud  achievements.  But  when  we  touch  the  conflicts  and 
struggles  of  the  spiritual  life  we  survey  an  uninvaded  prov- 
ince. Here  we  find  the  impulses  of  a  hidden  life,  a  path 
of  conquest  marked  out  and  trodden  by  faith.  Take  the 
history  of  Huguenot  and  Puritan.  See  them  in  the  mount- 
ain passes,  trustful  and  rejoicing,  and  catch  from  their 


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sublime  faith  a  new  enthusiasm.  Come  to  the  New 
World,  and  suffer  yourself  to  be  borne  aloug  on  the  pio- 
neer fringe  of  advancing  civilization,  and  you  will  find  the 
grandest  exhibitions  of  faith  as  spiritual  foes  fall,  one  after 
another,  before  the  weapons  which  are  "  mighty  through 
God  to  the  pulling  down  of  strongholds." 

Repentance  and  conversion  presented  sharply  outlined 
characteristics.  For  some  reason  convictions  were  intensely 
deep,  and  often  protracted.  It  was  like  the  gloom  of  the 
night,  unrelieved  by  "  a  spark  of  glimmering  day."  The 
soul  was  in  no  condition  to  be  deceived.  Pain  is  the  best 
judge  of  the  efficacy  of  pretended  solace.  But  as  we  linger 
near,  faith  has  its  triumph,  gray  tints  announce  the  dawn, 
the  brooding  shadows  flee  away ;  for  the  Sun  of  righteous- 
ness has  arisen  with  healing  in  his  wings.  These  super- 
natural transformations  have  ever  had  a  strong  attraction 
for  the  masses ;  they  flock  to  see  and  to  hear,  as  on  the 
day  of  Pentecost.  These  scenes  are  now  matters  of  his- 
tory. Like  unfading  pictures,  they  will  adorn  the  walls 
of  the  mighty  temple  with  spiritual  beauty,  for  the  delight 
and  culture  of  the  Church  through  the  ages.    This  is 

"  A  faith  that  shines  more  bright  and  clear 
When  tempests  rage  without, 
That  when  in  danger  knows  no  fear, 
In  darkness  feels  no  doubt." 

God's  Church  of  to-day  needs  such  a  faith  as  this ;  for 
the  soul  and  repentance  and  conversion  are  ever  the  same. 
There  are  other  means  for  the  quickening  of  this  faith ; 
but  I  am  of  opinion  that  our  literature  must  be  an  im- 
portant factor  in  the  largest  results.  Take  a  beautiful 
and  renowned  life,  and  trace  it  back  to  its  beginning,  and 
see  its  glory  bursting  forth  under  the  touch  of  faith  with 
more  than  the  wonder  of  magic  wand,  and  the  desire  for 
such  a  faith,  with  its  wonderful  results,  becomes  intense. 
In  China  the  priests  say,  "  When  ye  pray,  think  of 
Bhuda  [Buddha?],  and   you   will  be   transformed  into 


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Bhuda  [Buddha?]."  So  we  think  it  impossible  to  read  of 
the  rills  of  experience  which  flow  from  the  touch  of  faith, 
without  becoming  more  spiritual  and  devoted.  Why  is 
the  eleventh  chapter  of  Hebrews  one  of  the  most  attract- 
ive of  the  Bible?  Because  it  is  a  cluster  of  trophies. 
The  noblest  and  best  names  of  history  are  there — men 
made  great  by  their  faith  in  God  and  in  the  power  of  his 
might.  Read  the  record,  and  feel  the  inspiration.  I  im- 
agine the  Grecian  warrior  as  he  casts  his  eye  over  his 
shield  embossed  with  the  glorious  deeds  of  his  fathers,  is 
reminded  of  what  valor  has  done,  as  he  plunges  into  the 
fight  to  prove  himself  worthy  of  such  sires.  Let  the 
Church  to-day  take  the  shield  of  faith,  the  burnished 
shield,  and  while  the  beams  of  the  Spirit's  favor  kindle 
upon  it,  read  its  pictured  record  of  those  "  who,  through 
faith,  subdued  kingdoms,  wrought  righteousness,  and  at- 
tained the  promises."  The  Church  and  the  individual  life 
needs  to  be  called  away  from  false  notions  of  this  conflict. 
We  have  followed  the  enemy  of  rationalism  and  science, 
falsely  so  called,  into  an  ambush,  and  have  lost  the  cov- 
eted advantage.  We  have  forgotten  to  distinguish  between 
the  reason  and  the  emotions;  in  fact,  we  have  allowed 
contempt  to  be  expressed  for  the  emotions  without  a  pro- 
test. We  have  read  of  force  till  we  have  failed  to  remem- 
ber that  "it  was  not  by  might  nor  by  power,  but  by  my 
Spirit,  saith  the  Lord."  We  have  crowded  miracles  into 
the  smallest  corner  of  a  shrinking  credulity.  We  have 
substituted  an  external  propriety  for  the  mysteries  of  god- 
liness. And  while,  in  spite  of  such  numerous  and  general 
concessions,  there  is  still  some  progress,  it  is  not  a  tithe  of 
what  the  appliances  of  the  God-given  and  heaven-endowed 
machinery  are  capable  of.  What  is  the  remedy?  More 
spiritual  associations;  in  the  flesh,  if  possible.  "Forsake 
not  the  assembling  of  yourselves  together ;"  and  since  we 
are  the  result  of  the  intellectual  food  of  which  we  partake, 
again  we  advise,  Read  books  of  religious  experience. 


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Benjamin  Franklin  says  his  thought  and  conduct  received 
their  direction  from  some  tattered  leaves  of  Cotton  Math- 
er's "  Essay  to  Do  Good."  Christians,  there  is  an  upper 
department  in  your  spiritual  nature.  It  demands  moral 
and  spiritual  culture.  Will  you  seek  it?  A  literature  has 
been  provided.  It  abounds  in  the  most  wonderful  phases 
of  history,  ancient  or  modern.  Magic  wand  never  caused 
shrub  to  bud  and  flower  more  promptly  than  have  the 
Sandwich  Islands  with  Sharon's  beautiful  rose.  Aladdin's 
lamp  never  beamed  its  bright  light  with  more  power  or 
greater  wonder  than  has  our  Lord's  religion  in  India  and 
China.  Never  has  the  Lord's  going  marked  a  plainer  patli 
than  in  the  movement  called  Methodism.  Read  its  his- 
tory, become  familiar  with  its  pioneer  characters,  trace  its 
development,  and  remember  that  its  present  proportions 
are  largely  the  result  of  the  permanent  record  of  the  de- 
votion of  its  departed  heroes.  But  do  not  forget  the 
Bible.  For  all  the  purposes  mentioned  we  find  a  wonder- 
ful adaptation  in  the  Holy  Scriptures,  ranging  as  they  do 
between  the  eternities,  embellished  with  the  most  beautiful 
lives,  the  purest  sympathies,  and  to  the  soul's  most  anxious 
inquiries  offering  the  most  satisfactory  answers.  Here  is 
poetry  in  the  rhythm  of  the  skies,  history  that  goes  back 
further  than  the  first  human  footprint,  prophecies  that, 
going  before  and  perching  on  the  summit  of  a  future  cen- 
turv,  await  the  certain  coming  of  the  slow-moving  foot  of 
human  history.  "Search  the  Scriptures,  for  in  them  ye 
think  ye  have  eternal  life,"  and  they  are  they  which  testify 
of  Christ. 

Our  subject  has  another  important  bearing  in  view  of 
the  floods  of  pernicious  literature  which  threaten  to  ingulf 
and  destroy  the  young  and  impressible  minds  of  our  homes 
and  society.  This  is  the  day  of  objectionable  fiction,  pub- 
lished in  every  variety  and  at  any  price.  It  adjusts  itself 
to  every  state,  and  promises  not  to  burden  the  mind  with 
thought.    Much  of  it  is  weak  and  silly,  the  variety  Bishop 


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Thomson  had  in  mind  when  he  framed  the  following 
recipe : 

"Take  of  words  one  hogshead, 
Of  understanding  one  drop, 

Of  human  depravity  and  coloring  matter  sufficient  quantity; 
Mix,  and  filter  through  green  or  yellow  paper." 

Much  of  this  trash  is  shamelessly  obscene,  and  is  with- 
out higher  aim  than  to  pander  to  the  depraved  taste  of 
the  ignoraut  and  sensual.  These  will  debase  the  manners, 
inflame  the  passions,  and  send  young  people,  dissatisfied 
with  the  staid  ways  of  home  and  society,  on  the  restless 
search  of  an  ideal  happiness,  which  has  no  existence  out- 
side the  disgusting  scenes  of  its  own  disordered  imagina- 
tion. Authors  may  be  divided  into  three  classes, — irre- 
proachable, doubtful,  and  dangerous.  The  last  revels  in 
base  creations,  the  second  introduces  an  occasional  decoy, 
while  the  first  has  written  no  line  that  will  fail  to  stand 
the  delicate  test  of  the  most  cultivated  and  chaste  home 
circle.  You  must  avoid  suspicious  characters,  or  be  con- 
taminated by  the  association.  They  become  to  the  enfee- 
bled mind  the  veriest  realities.  They  leap  from  the  paper, 
take  shape,  and  become  living  beings.  Who  will  wonder 
at  their  influence,  especially  upon  the  inexperienced  and 
unsuspecting?  If  these  imaginary  characters  are  evil,  they 
lose  no  moment,  opportune  or  otherwise,  in  honey-combing 
virtue  and  anticipating  its  fall.  And  if,  on  the  other 
hand,  they  are  good  and  noble,  we  may  expect  the  reader 
to  go  forth  breathing  a  magnanimous  and  pure  spirit. 
We  are  asked,  May  we  not  read  for  recreation?  I  answer, 
How  few  know  any  thing  of  mental  weariness !  But  even 
though  hour  after  hour  has  felt  the  impress  of  patient 
thought  creeping  slowly  over  a  tired  brain,  all  this  is  no 
excuse  for  poisonous  stimulus.  If  a  weary  body  is  an 
apology  for  the  feverish  quickening  of  alcohol,  then  we 
may  rekindle  the  fires  of  thought  with  the  blue  blazes  of 

objectionable  fiction.    Not  that  we  indiscriminately  con- 

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demn  all  fiction  ;  for  certainly  he  is  healthier  and  stronger 
whose  brow  is  cooled  by  the  ocean  breezes  of  Virgil  and 
the  mountain  air  of  Knowles,  who  has  reveled  in  the 
Palestine  imagery  of  Willis  or  the  wonderful  creations  of 
Milton,  Young,  Bunyan,  Shakespeare,  Tennyson,  and 
Longfellow.  We  would  suggest  a  wider  latitude  than  we 
can  here  define ;  but  it  must  be  determined  carefully  by 
those  who  are  older  and  more  experienced.  Parents  should 
supervise  the  reading  of  their  children,  and  furnish  the 
library  as  carefully  as  the  larder  and  dining-room.  It  will 
cost  something  to  do  so;  it  will  cost  more  to  neglect  it. 
If  books  were  simply  a  superficial  luxury,  we  might  ap- 
plaud his  wisdom  who  filled  his  library  with  painted  blocks 
in  imitation  of  costly  volumes,  or  the  inexpensive  Patent- 
office  Reports.  Books  are  the  teachers  of  the  home  and  a 
principal  factor  in  its  happiness  or  misery.  By  them  irre- 
pressible activities  may  be  wisely  directed ;  hours  of  idle- 
ness, which  are  always  fruitful  with  temptations,  sweep 
by  only  too  rapidly  on  the  wings  of  cheerfulness,  when 
employed  in  useful  reading.  There  are  books  for  the  chil- 
dren. They  abound  in  adventure,  describe  the  traits  of 
animals,  and  repeat  the  events  of  the  past.  There  are 
books  of  biography,  and  others  where  a  few  marvels  of 
science  may  impart  a  taste  for  that  which  is  stranger  than 
fiction.  These  are  the  teachers  who  will  make  the  wisest 
and  happiest  impress  on  character.  Parents  must  not 
excuse  themselves  for  want  of  time,  expense,  or  taste. 
The  necessity  is  imperious,  like  that  for  bread.  To  neg- 
lect it  is  to  dwarf  mind  and  enfeeble  the  moral  powers. 
To  refuse  to  supervise  the  books  and  reading  of  young 
people  is  to  license  the  devil  in  his  worst  and  deadliest 
work. 

We  close  by  emphasizing  our  suggestion.  Books  are 
the  sources  and  channels  of  knowledge,  and  the  inspira- 
tion and  encouragement  to  virtue.  They  are  the  best 
aid  to  parents  in  the  effort  to  quicken  the  intelligence, 


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restrain  the  passions,  and  culture  the  emotions.  Thus 
humanity,  regenerated  and  informed  comes  to  its  highest 
possibilities,  and  the  home  becomes  the  shrine  of  all  that 
is  good  in  the  heart  and  "worthy  and  great  in  the  life. 

W.  W.  RAMSAY. 


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XXII. 

OUR  LITERATURE  AS  A  SOCIAL  FORCE  IN 
THE  CHURCH. 

What  should  we  be  without  society?  Life  would  in- 
deed be  a  dreary  isolation.  God  has  shown  his  goodness 
to  man  by  providing  that  he  shall  not  be  alone.  "He 
setteth  the  solitary  in  families."  When  we  come  into  the 
world  welcoming  arms  receive  us.  Throughout  infancy 
smiling  faces,  beaming  with  tender  love,  meet  our  gaze, 
and  voices,  musical  with  gladness  sing  to  us  the  soothing 
and  sweet  lyrics  of  the  heart.  Home  is  the  dearest  and 
happiest  place  on  earth,  because  it  is  the  realm  in  which 
the  social  nature  reigns.  Home  would  not  be  home  were 
its  lips  dumb,  its  faces  immobile,  its  sympathies  frozen. 
It  is  the  blissful  place  it  is  because  there  the  heart,  unre- 
strained, pours  out  its  best  treasures  in  speech,  in  smiles, 
in  laughter,  and  in  tears. 

As  our  duties  begin  but  do  not  end  at  home,  so  our 
social  life  projects  itself  beyond  the  hearthstone.  They 
who  neglect  home  for  the  sake  of  outside  society  are  rec- 
reant to  sacred  obligations ;  they  who  give  all  their  thought 
and  time  to  the  home  circle,  to  the  exclusion  of  all  other 
social  interests,  are  selfish.  Some  of  the  most  intimate 
and  tender  friendships  of  Jesus  were  beyond  the  circle  of 
his  relatives.  Religion  does  not  stifle  the  social  instinct, 
but  strengthens  it.  Christianity  is  in  harmony  with  man's 
nature,  and  develops  and  adorns  that  nature,  instead  of 
crushing  it.  It  makes  society  pure,  elevating,  and  helpful. 
It  makes  social  life,  by  excluding  from  it  the  base  passions, 
together  with  deceit  and  tale-bearing,  a  source  of  perennial 


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245 


enjoyment.  Were  Christ's  religion  universally  diffused, 
and  society  completely  under  its  dominance,  our  social 
fellowship  would  indeed  be  a  high  source  of  pleasure,  even 
"  like  to  that  above." 

I  once  heard  a  Christian  of  advanced  years  say  in  a 
meeting  that  a  sanctified  person  never  or  rarely  laughs. 
He  was  no  doubt  sincere,  but  sadly  ignorant.  His  repre- 
sentation of  Christian  piety  in  its  highest  stage  was  a  most 
abhorrent  caricature.  A  sanctified  Christian  never  laugh  ! 
Then  why  did  God  give  us  the  power  to  laugh  ?  The  very 
fact  that  our  Maker  made  us  with  a  capacity  for  laughter 
is  evidence  positive  and  certain  that  he  intended  us  to 
laugh.  The  trouble  is  not  with  the  laughing,  but  with  the 
occasion  or  cause  of  the  laughter.  A  Christian  can  not 
innocently  laugh  in  derision.  He  may  not  laugh  at  the 
expense  of  another's  rights  or  feelings.  He  must  not  laugh 
at  sin,  however  ludicrous  may  be  the  shapes  it  assumes. 
But  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  gladness  of  a  true,  healthful 
nature,  in  the  circle  of  friends,  amidst  "the  feast  of  reason 
and  the  flow  of  soul,"  he  may  smile — aye,  he  may  laugh — 
and  be  the  better  for  it.  It  is  a  sad  pity  that  people, 
however  pious,  but  who  are  afflicted  with  jaundice,  should 
ever  attempt  to  depict  religion.  It  is  brilliant  with  every 
bright  and  celestial  hue ;  but  to  their  eyes  it  is  altogether 
yellow,  and  they  think  that  the  people  who  say  it  is  not 
yellow,  but  aglow  with  more  than  diamond  splendors,  are 
ignorant  of  the  genuine  thing.  The  world  is  full  of  heart- 
ache ;  religion  brings  to  it  good  cheer.  It  is  full  of  frowns; 
religion  illumines  it  with  smiles.  It  is  full  of  groans ;  re- 
ligion gives  it  notes  of  joy.  God  means  that  we  shall  be 
happy;  sin  has  made  us  miserable.  He  has  given  to  us  a 
religion  whose  office  it  is  to  restore  to  us  the  bliss  of  van- 
ished Eden.  Let  us  receive  it  as  the  beautiful,  glorious, 
glad  thing  that  it  is,  and  rejoice  in  its  blessedness. 

As  religion  is  adapted  to  our  social  nature,  so  it  en- 
encourages  and  promotes  the  exercise  and  gratification  of 


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the  social  feelings.  It  bids  us  not  to  forsake  the  assem- 
bling of  ourselves  together.  It  requires  us  to  visit  the 
widow  and  the  fatherless.  It  enjoins  us  to  rejoice  with 
those  who  do  rejoice,  and  to  weep  with  them  that  weep. 
It  charges  us  to  be  kindly  affectioned  one  to  another  with 
brotherly  love.  No  man  can  be  a  healthy  Christian  and 
be  morose,  and  shut  up  all  the  good  he  gets  within  him- 
self.   Christians,  on  the  contrary,  are  "given  to  hospitality." 

This  explains  why  some  ministers,  whose  gifts  are  ordi- 
nary, are  notably  popular.  They  are  social.  In  other 
words,  they  pour  out  the  kind  and  generous  sympathies  of 
their  hearts  in  smiles  that  are  like  sunshine  breaking 
through  the  clouds  that  hang  over  the  hearts  of  their 
people.  They  have  a  gentle,  soothing,  appreciative,  help- 
ful word  for  every  one.  They  haste  to  the  chamber  of 
sickness  and  to  the  abode  of  sorrow.  And  while  they  have 
no  special  attraction  as  preachers,  they  are  walking  bene- 
dictions among  their  people  all  through  the  week.  Hence 
they  are  loved,  and  the  Churches  clamor  for  them  as 
pastors. 

The  same  is  true  of  many  laymen.  The  people  love 
them,  and  they  are  very  influential  in  the  Church.  It  is 
not  because  of  their  wealth  or  talents,  but  because  they 
help  and  comfort  many  by  kind  words  and  pleasant  atten- 
tions. And  when  in  a  town  there  is  a  Church  whose 
members  are  largely  of  that  kind,  that  Church  will  not 
lack  for  adherents,  but  it  will  be  "  the  people's  Church." 

The  Church  ought  to  be  the  most  pleasant  place.  Its 
society  ought  to  be  the  most  agreeable.  In  a  good  degree, 
this  is  the  case.  The  most  delightful  people,  the  most 
engaging  and  helpful  associations  on  earth,  are  found  in 
the  Christian  Church.  But  wherever  it  is  possible  to  make 
the  Church  more  attractive  and  useful,  by  improving  and 
enlarging  its  social  facilities,  it  should  be  done. 

An  efficient  means  of  doing  this  is  the  enlisting  of  the 
members  of  the  Church  in  the  work  of  mental  improve- 


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ment  by  means  of  pure  and  profitable  reading.  The  man 
or  woman  who  never  reads  will  never  be  able  to  exercise 
a  wide  social  influence.  There  will,  first  of  all,  be  a  lack 
of  the  power  of  expression.  He  who  does  not  habitually 
read  will  have  a  deficient  vocabulary,  and,  therefore,  will 
not  be  ready  in  speech.  Words  are  to  thoughts  what  the 
setting  is  to  the  jewel.  However  good,  or  even  brilliant, 
the  thought  may  be,  if  it  is  not  presented  in  fitting  lan- 
guage its  beauty  is  obscured.  Words  fitly  chosen  can 
alone  set  it  off*  at  its  best.  Reading  familiarizes  us  with 
such  words,  and  enables  us  to  use  them  with  readiness 
and  skill. 

Every  intelligent  person  has  felt  the  difficulty  of  con- 
versing with  some  people.  They  have  so  little  knowledge 
of  any  thing  beyond  the  daily  range  of  their  routine  lives 
that  they  are  unable  to  enter  into  any  conversation  that 
reaches  at  all  outside  of  it.  Hence  a  brief  chat  exhausts 
their  resources.  And  this  is  not  uncommon.  A  very  in- 
telligent lady  remarked  to  me  that  very  few  gentlemen 
whom  she  meets  in  society  ever  say  any  thing  to  her  that 
has  any  sense  in  it.  She  thought  that  men  in  social  gath- 
erings indulge  in  only  vapid  talk  to  women,  and  reserve 
all  their  weighty  speech  for  their  own  sex.  But  the  fact 
is  that  they  do  not  find  railroads  and  stocks  and  business 
affairs  generally  suitable  for  the  staple  of  conversation  with 
ladies ;  and,  as  too  often  they  know  but  little  about  any 
thing  else,  they  are  not  able  to  entertain  a  lady  of  intelli- 
gence in  the  drawing-room.  Speak  to  a  lady  of  some 
notable  character  of  either  sex  of  whom  you  have  read ; 
or  of  some  piquant  article  or  striking  fact  contained  in 
the  magazine  or  newspaper;  of  a  beautiful  poem  whose 
sentiment  and  rhythm  gave  you  pleasure ;  of  a  fresh  and 
pleasing  line  of  thought  you  have  been  pursuing  as  the 
result  of  the  last  new  book  you  have  read ;  and  she  will 
be  interested  and  gratified,  and  never  will  she  say  that 
your  conversation  was  futile. 


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Speech  is  a  great  faculty.  Man  is  the  only  being  on 
earth  that  God  has  gifted  with  it.  What  man  would  be 
without  it  we  can  infer  from  seeing  those  whose  lips  are 
dumb.  They  can  think,  and  convey  their  thoughts  rudely 
by  motions,  and  even  by  writing,  but  they  can  not  pour 
them  forth  in  words.  The  mind  is  the  fountain  of  ideas. 
Speech  is  the  stream  that  gushes  from  it,  carrying  blessing 
or  blight  wheresoever  it  flows. 

By  the  right  use  of  speech  our  social  natures  are  grat- 
ified, our  religious  affections  are  improved,  and  our  influ- 
ence for  good  increased.  The  man  or  woman  who  in  a 
Church  can  converse  sensibly,  attractively,  and  instruc- 
tively is,  if  consistent  in  conduct,  a  living  power  and 
blessing  in  that  Church.  The  social  gatherings  which 
every  Church  ought  to  have  from  time  to  time,  may  be 
made,  by  the  skillful  use  of  conversation,  a  means  of  pro- 
moting its  interests. 

That  which  we  need  to  make  our  conversation  what  it 
ought  to  be,  is  something  to  talk  about.  A  very  eloquent 
preacher,  now  deceased,  who  had  a  marvelously  fine  voice 
and  a  superior  presence,  once  told  me  that  after  one  of  his 
first  efforts  in  public,  if  not  his  very  first,  the  brother  at 
whose  house  he  stayed  told  him  that  he  had  a  good  voice, 
and  that  the  thing  he  needed  now  was  something  to  say. 
And  he  assured  me  that  he  never  forgot  that  significant 
suggestion.  Many  and  many  a  time  that  preacher  held 
and  charmed  audiences  of  thousands,  and  moved  numbers 
to  God ;  but  he  never  forgot  the  necessity  of  having 
something  to  say. 

What  every  Church  needs  is  not  only  ministers,  but 
also  members,  who  have  something  to  say,  and  something 
worth  the  saying;  something  to  say  in  the  prayer-meeting 
and  class-meeting;  and  also  something  to  say  in  the  mul- 
tifarious occasions  of  social  intercourse.  And  an  important 
and  essential  means  of  making  sure  of  this  is  habitually  to 
read  good  books — religious  books — and  the  periodicals,  at 


A  SOCIAL  FORCE. 


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least  the  weekly  paper,  published  by  the  Church.  Iu  uo 
other  way  can  he  know  any  thing  of  the  great  enterprises 
carried  on  by  the  Chureh  for  the  conversion  of  the  world. 

The  social  force  of  the  Church  would,  I  think,  be  much 
increased  were  every  congregation  provided  with  a  library 
and  a  reading-room.  Let  the  latter  be  open  every  evening 
for  the  men  who  are  at  work  during  the  day,  and  for  the 
women  every  afternoon.  Let  the  religious  papers  be  pro- 
vided in  abundance.  Let  all  our  Book  Room  volumes 
be  in  the  library.  In  this  way  our  people  will  be  drawn 
to  books  and  to  reading.  Their  minds,  hearts,  and  man- 
ners will  be  improved  thereby.  Their  conversation  will  be 
suited  to  minister  grace  to  the  hearer.  At  the  same  time 
the  Book  Concern  will  become  an  auxiliary  to  the  pulpit 
in  a  larger  degree.  Then,  instead  of  vapid  nonsense,  which 
too  often  drivels  from  silly  lips  in  our  social  gatherings, 
the  conversation  will  be  charming,  refreshing,  improving, 
because  it  will  flow  forth  from  minds  stored  with  profitable 
thoughts  and  instructive  facts.  Then  new  converts  will  be 
helped,  rather  than  hindered,  by  the  society  of  older  mem- 
bers, and  the  Church  will  enjoy  a  genial,  winning,  intelli- 
gent piety. 

JOHN  ATKINSON. 


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XXIII. 

LITERATURE  OF  THE  HIGHER  CHRIS- 
TIAN LIFE. 

This  is  an  age  of  books.  In  material  with  which  to 
make  them,  in  facilities  for  their  rapid  and  extended  multi- 
plication, in  means  for  their  easy  and  wide  distribution, 
and  in  the  opportunities  afforded  for  their  composition,  no 
age  ever  equaled  our  own. 

In  such  a  time  it  is  but  part  of  the  logic  of  events  that 
literature  shall  assume,  to  a  large  extent,  the  form  of 
monographs.  Accordingly,  we  find  nearly  every  possible 
theme  known  to  our  day  worked  up  in  this  form.  Books, 
ably  written,  on  single  topics  is  a  prominent  feature,  as  it 
is  also  one  of  the  most  satisfactory  characteristics  of  the 
literature  of  the  day. 

It  is  well  that  religious  literature  is  rapidly  assuming 
this  form.  It  may  thus  hope  for  better  treatment,  wider 
circulation,  and  a  more  profitable  reading. 

There  is  a  literature  of  the  higher  Christian  life.  I 
need  scarcely  say  that  in  this  department  Methodism  is 
exceedingly  rich,  or  that  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
has  upon  the  shelves  of  her  great  publishing-houses  works 
upon  this  important  subject  which,  for  thoroughness  of 
treatment,  variety  of  style,  and  richness  of  experience  by 
which  they  are  illustrated,  are  not  anywhere  excelled. 
And  we  have  not  only  good  books  which  treat  this  subject 
directly,  so  that,  in  the  language  of  Bishop  Merrill,  "  the 
literature  is  exceedingly  rich,  and  in  it  are  found  ample  vin- 
dications of  the  doctrine  and  clear  and  worthy  representa- 
tions of  every  aspect  of  the  experience,"  but  the  higher  life 


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in  its  teachings  and  experiences  is  found  in  the  biographies 
of  such  precious  characters  as  Bramwell,  Carvosso,  Mrs. 
Fletcher,  Lady  Maxwell,  Hester  Ann  Rogers,  Madame 
Guy  on,  Fisk,  Olin,  Hamline,  Cookman,  and  others.  And 
in  the  published  journals  of  such  as  Wesley  and  Asbury 
do  we  find  it,  while  our  theological  standards  teach  and 
defend  it,  our  denominational  histories  record  its  struggles 
and  victories,  our  periodicals  never  fail  to  give  it  place  in 
their  columns,  and  our  hymns  are  fairly  aglow  with  the 
glory  of  this  -exalted  experience.  What  a  hymn  is  the 
"  Wrrestling  Jacob"  of  Charles  Wesley — a  very  epic  of  the 
higher  life ! 

It  should  be  no  matter  for  surprise  that  we,  as  a 
Church,  possess  such  a  literature,  or  that  we  make  it  so 
prominent.  Did  we  not  we  would  be  untrue  to  our  history 
and  untrue  to  our  birthright;  for  while  all  the  Churches 
now  practically  admit  this  experience,  each  using  its  own 
language,  it  has  to  us  a  peculiar  relation. 

There  is  not  and  never  has  been  a  form  of  faith, 
whether  Christian  or  heathen,  which  does  not  teach  the 
necessity  of  purity  in  order  to  heaven.  But  Methodism 
seemed  to  have  for  her  distinctive  mission  the  bringing  to 
light  anew  the  old  Gospel  truth  that  man  may  be  "holy 
in  heart  in  this  life." 

The  embryo  of  Methodism  was  the  Holy  Club  of  Ox- 
ford. The  aim  of  those  struggling  souls  was  purity  of 
heart  and  life,  and  the  avowed  purpose  of  the  Wesleys 
was  "  to  spread  Scripture  holiness."  Methodism  was  not 
an  ecclesiastical  movement,  not  a  contention  for  doctrinal 
formulae,  but  a  restoration  of  spiritual  life  and  a  revival 
of  religious  experience.  And  Methodism  went  out  upon 
her  mission  with  this  one  purpose,  and  this  alone,  to  lead 
men  to  a  holy  life ;  and  her  whole  economy  was  developed 
about  this  one  idea.  Her  Church  polity,  her  symbols  ot 
faith,  her  various  prudential  regulations,  her  peculiar 
means  of  grace,  the  matter  and  manner  of  her  pulpit 


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ministrations  are  in  general  harmony  with  this  thought. 
It  is  well  for  us  as  a  people  that  all  through  our  history 
we  have  kept  in  such  prominence  the  "  only  one  condition 
previously  required  of  those  who  desire  admission  into 
these  societies" — "a  desire  to  flee  the  wrath  to  come  and 
to  be  saved  from  their  sins."  Just  as  we  depart  from  the 
spirit  of  this  "one  condition"  shall  we  be  in  danger  of 
schism  and  fierce  contention.  Here  at  least  must  we 
stand,  whatever  may  be  the  questions  which  are  now  upon 
us,  or  which  may  arise  in  the  future. 

Methodism  must  hold  her  people,  and  hold  a  common 
Protestantism,  up  to  the  standard  which,  under  God,  she 
had  the  honor  to  raise  anew, — "Holiness  unto  the  Lord." 
All  other  questions  are  incidental  to  this;  all  polity  is 
worthless  which  does  not  work  to  this  end.  She  must 
hold  to  this  against  the  misrepresentations  of  her  enemies 
and  against  the  false  representations  of  this  glorious  ex- 
perience among  those  supposed  to  be  her  friends.  She 
must  hold  to  it  against  the  strong  current  of  worldliness 
which  sets  upon  her;  nor  must  she  be  ashamed  of  it  in 
the  midst  of  an  idolatry  of  culture,  an  idolatry  of  intel- 
lect, or  an  idolatry  of  mammon.  This  culture  of  the 
higher  life,  this  science  of  salvation,  this  treasure  of  the 
kingdom,  must  be  held  as  needing  apology  to  nothing 
earthly  and  as  man's  noblest  pursuit  and  choicest  posses- 
sion. If  the  "signs  of  the  times"  may  be  read,  do  they 
not  indicate  a  better  day  for  the  doctrine  of  the  higher 
life?  There  is  unusual  and  wide-spread  interest  in  it 
among  all  the  Churches.  A  healthy  reaction  has  already 
begun  from  what  must  historically  stand  in  the  records  of 
our  Church  as  a  period  of  decline  with  reference  to  this 
phase  of  doctrine — a  decline  brought  about  by  the  sad 
handling  it  has  received  at  the  hands  of  those  whose  zeal 
was  disproportionate  to  their  knowledge  and  prudence. 
We  hail  this  reaction,  and  firmly  trust  that,  baptized  with 
new  life  and  clothed  with  newT  power,  the  doctrine  and 


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experience  of  the  higher  Christian  life  may  be  exalted  in 
the  Church  and  by  all  who  serve  at  her  altars  or  thereon 
lay  the  consecrated  offerings  of  their  hearts. 

But  it  becomes  a  question  of  vital  moment  as  to  what 
agencies  are  best  able  to  promote  the  true  and  clear  un- 
derstanding of  this  doctrine,  and  stimulate  its  experiences. 
Among  the  chief  must  ever  be  the  preaching  of  the  Gos- 
pel. What  is  not  taught  and  honored  in  the  pulpit  will 
not  long  remain  in  the  pew ;  nor  can  the  pew  long  remain 
unaffected  by  the  earnest,  Scriptural,  and  judicious  pre- 
sentation of  truth.  The  ordinary  channels  of  grace  may 
each  be  made  an  agent  in  this  work.  The  testimonies  of 
those  who  have  attained,  and  especially  their  consistent 
lives,  are  not  least  of  these  agencies  for  teaching  men  that 
there  is  an  upward  path,  and  in  leading  them  to  seek  it. 

And  literature  has  its  power.  There  are  few  more  po- 
tent agencies  than  books,  good  or  bad,  silently  yet  surely  to 
form  character  and  lead  to  action.  Among  the  publica- 
tions of  our  denominational  press  we  find  ample  assurance 
that  there  has  not  been  left  to  ephemeral  articles  in  our 
periodicals  or  to  outside  and  somewhat  irresponsible  publi- 
cations the  care  of  an  interest  which  deserves  the  best 
treatment.  We  have  a  standard  literature  of  the  higher 
Christian  life,  one  carefully  written,  and  which  deserves 
the  highest  commendation,  largest  confidence,  and  widest 
patronage.  This  literature  deserves  to  be  in  the  homes  of 
all  the  people.  It  should  be  read  and  re-read,  until  the 
sentiments  and  aspirations  contained  permeate  the  thoughts 
and  feelings. 

What  untold  results  for  good  might  follow  the  perusal 
of  these  books  by  all  the  people !  What  problems  of  min- 
isterial inefficiency,  of  discouragement  in  Church  work,  of 
spiritual  weakness,  of  want  of  revival  power,  and  want 
of  faith,  and  want  of  means  to  carry  on  the  work  of  the 
kingdom,  would  such  reading  solve!  How  the  Church 
would  be  energized,  and  how  her  spiritual  life  would  be 


254  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


kindled  anew!  It  is  doubtful  whether  it  is  generally 
known,  even  among  Methodists  themselves,  to  what  ex- 
tent the  Church  is  ready  to  supply  works  on  this  subject. 
With  Wesley's  "Christian  Perfection"  and  Fletchers 
works  the  Methodists  of  half  a  century  ago  were  quite 
familiar ;  but  it  is  to  be  feared  that  even  these  invaluable 
little  volumes  are  known  to  few  outside  the  ministry.  To 
these  standards  have  been  added  others,  some  of  which 
deserve  special  mention  that  they  may  be  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  people. 

A  valuable  contribution  is  the  work  entitled  "  Saving 
Faith,"  by  that  sturdy  logician,  Dr.  Israel  Chamberlayne, 
which,  while  it  does  not  deal  directly  with  the  theme  of 
holiness,  lays  a  foundation  for  its  more  intelligent  under- 
standing. "  Walking  in  the  Light,"  by  D.  D.  Buck,  D.  D. , 
is  a  convenient  little  volume,  which  develops  in  a  manner 
at  once  attractive  and  practical  that  choice  saying  of 
John,  "  If  we  walk  in  the  light  as  he  is  in  the  light,  we 
have  fellowship  one  with  another,  and  the  blood  of  Jesus 
Christ  his  Son  cleanseth  us  from  all  sin."  It  will  repay  a 
close  perusal. 

The  great  duty  and  high  privilege  of  entire  consecra- 
tion to  Christ  is  most  fully  treated  in  Dr.  Thomas  Carter's 
volume  entitled,  "All  for  Christ."  It  is  a  book  to  stir 
the  soul,  and  cause  it  to  desire  harmony  with  God.  See 
how  the  author  himself  pleads  for  the  use  of  this  literature 
and  for  the  verity  of  this  experience :  "  What  shall  we  say 
of  Fletcher,  Bramwell,  Abbott,  Carvosso,  Nelson,  Hester 
Ann  Rogers,  Mrs.  Fletcher,  Lady  Maxwell,  and  a  thou- 
sand others?  Were  they  all  mistaken,  and  did  they  per- 
petuate a  base  falsehood  when  they  said  they  enjoyed  the 
blessing  of  perfect  love?  Who  can  read  that  noble  mon- 
ument of  untiring  research  and  literary  talent,  Stevens's 
1  History  of  Methodism,'  without  being  convinced  that 
herein  lay  the  strength  of  the  founders  of  our  Church  ? 
If  every  family  would  possess  themselves  of  these  volumes 


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and  read  them,  we  have  no  doubt  the  result  would  be  a 
grand  revival  throughout  all  the  Church.  How  few  of  us 
in  these  modern  times  have  allowed  our  souls  to  be  quick- 
ened and  inspired  by  the  perusal  of  the  lives  of  Fletcher, 
Bramwell,  and  the  other  heroes  of  faith  to  whom  we  have 
referred !  If  the  apostle  Paul,  in  the  eleventh  chapter  of 
Hebrews,  cited  the  worthies  who  preceded  the  era  in  which 
he  lived  to  inflame  the  zeal  and  strengthen  the  faith  of  the 
early  Christians,  how  appropriate  it  is  that  we  should  seek 
incentives  to  a  closer  walk  with  God  by  an  acquaintance 
with  the  courage,  the  struggles,  the  sufferings  of  those  to 
whom  we  owe  the  institutions  under  which  we  dwell! 
And  then,  as  we  look  farther  back  upon  the  era  of  the 
great  Reformation,  and  behold  Luther,  Knox,  Cobham, 
Savonarola,  Huss,  Lefevre,  Gustavus  Adolphus,  and  the 
great  army  of  reformers  and  martyrs  in  England,  Scot- 
laud,  France,  Germany,  and  Italy,  giving  all  for  Christ, 
many  of  them  dying  at  the  stake,  on  the  block,  in  the 
dungeon,  as  they  laid  the  foundations  of  the  religious  lib- 
erty which  we  now  enjoy,  who  can  count  up  the  numbers 
who  served  God  with  a  perfect  heart  ?" 

"  The  Believer's  Victory  over  Satan's  Devices,"  although 
from  the  pen  of  a  Calvinist,  contains  much  that  is  invalu- 
able on  the  higher  life.  Who  can  afford  to  omit  the  read- 
ing of  a  book  which  samples  like  this  ? — "  Take,  again,  the 
simple  fact  of  God's  loving  and  abiding  presence,  sweetly 
manifested  as  a  reality  to  the  soul's  inner  consciousness. 
The  result  is,  that  we  know  and  feel  that  we  live  and  move 
and  have  our  being  in  him,  as  the  body  lives  and  moves 
and  has  its  being  in  the  atmosphere  which  surrounds  it. 
The  soul  communes  with  him  as  with  an  intimate,  present 
friend.  Prayer  is  no  longer  an  effort  to  address  God  in 
the  distant  heavens,  but  is  as  natural  and  easy  and  spon- 
taneous as  the  communion,  face  to  face,  of  loving  friends. 
It  is  not  limited  to  particular  hours  and  forms,  but  goes 
on  very  much  as  two  kindred  and  loving  minds  dwelling 


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together  will,  by  the  laws  of  want  and  suggestion,  and  by 
the  very  tendency  of  love  to  communicate,  be  always  ex- 
pressing themselves  to  each  other.  This  presence  of  God 
may  sometimes  dazzle  and  almost  blind  the  soul  with  its 
effulgence,  as  with  Moses  when  God  showed  him  some-, 
thing  of  his  glory ;  but,  generally,  the  Lord  will  so  mani- 
fest his  presence  that  it  will  be  to  the  soul  what  the  air  is 
to  the  body,  the  natural,  healthy,  life-giving,  and  most  sat- 
isfying element  in  which  it  is  possible  to  live.  When  by 
this  manifestation  the  believer's  heart  becomes  the  Sheki- 
nah  wherein  Jehovah  dwells,  it  must  have  a  life  rich  with 
all  heavenly  elements." 

'  'Holiness  the  Birthright  of  All  God's  Children,"  by 
Dr.  J.  T.  Crane  is  a  valuable  and  very  readable  pro- 
duction. 

A  vigorous  little  volume  is  "  The  Satisfactory  Portion," 
by  A.  C.  George,  D.  D.  A  paragraph  must  suffice :  "  No 
possessions,  honors,  friendships,  or  pleasures  can  fill  the 
'aching  void'  in  a  poor  sinner's  soul.  The  'dearest  idol' 
of  a  blindly  loving  heart  is  not  to  be  compared  with  Jesus 
enthroned  in  the  affections.  And  if  our  heavenly  Father 
shall  lead  us  to  taste  the  emptiness  of  the  world,  and  prove 
of  how  little  worth  are  its  applause,  its  dignities,  and  its 
glories,  it  is  that  our  longing  desires  may  go  out  after  the 
imperishable  good  which  blossoms  in  the  promises  of  the 
Gospel,  and  drops  in  precious  fruit  from  the  tree  of  life  in 
the  soul's  paradise,  at  the  right-hand  of  God." 

The  works  of  Rev.  L.  R.  Dunn  seem  to  be  written  out 
of  rich  experience.  From  "  Holiness  to  the  Lord"  I  take 
the  following  :  ' '  All  systems  of  philosophy  and  ethics  have 
labored  to  reform  and  purify  the  outward  character  and 
life ;  to  make  the  stream  sweet,  the  fruit  good  ;  to  cleanse 
the  outside  of  the  cup  or  platter,  or  to  whiten  the  sepulcher. 
But  the  Christian  system  looks  first  of  all  to  the  utter 
eradication  of  all  roots  of  bitterness  from  the  heart,  to  the 
purification  of  the  fountain,  to  making  the  tree  good,  to 


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bursting  the  cerements  of  the  spiritual  grave,  and  giving  a 
resurrection  from  the  moral  death  which  has  reigned 
within.  This  system  teaches  us  that  there  can  be  no  out- 
ward holiness  in  the  life,  in  the  conduct,  and  in  the  habit, 
unless  the  inward  principle  be  implanted  within,  aud  domi- 
nating over  all  the  powers  of  the  soul."  His  work  en- 
titled "Mission  of  the  Spirit"  is  a  grand  work  on  that 
noble  theme.  How  rich  is  that  chapter  on  "The  Com- 
forter as  the  Sanctifier  !" 

This  literature  of  the  higher  life  has  been  honored  by 
the  pens  of  some  of  the  bishops,  among  whom  we  mention 
Peck,  Foster,  and  Merrill.  In  "Aspects  of  Christian  Ex- 
perience," by  the  latter,  the  author  thus  writes:  "Meth- 
odism teaches  the  doctrine  of  Christian  perfection,  and 
attaches  importance  to  it  as  a  distinctive  feature  to  be 
insisted  upon  in  public  and  private ;  and  because  of  this 
peculiarity  she  has  encountered  no  little  opposition,  and 
has  been  compelled  to  vindicate  her  faith  by  earnest  and 
continued  discussions.  Some  progress  has  been  made  in 
the  work  of  impressing  her  views  upon  the  minds  of  other 
Christian  people,  so  that  but  few  of  the  old  forms  of  dis- 
putation are  required ;  but  the  time  has  not  yet  come  for 
silence,  for  many  yet  fail  to  appreciate  the  ground  she  oc- 
cupies or  the  spirit  in  which  this  faith  is  held."  What 
ringing  words  are  these,  and  how  they  should  sound 
through  the  aisles  of  our  temples  and  in  our  homes:  "The 
promotion  of  holiness  is  the  mission  of  the  Church.  This 
was  the  life-work  of  the  Son  of  God  and  the  design  of  his 
death.  '  He  gave  himself  for  us,  that  he  might  redeem  us 
from  all  iniquity,  and  purify  unto  himself  a  peculiar  peo- 
ple zealous  of  good  works.'  Then,'  as  the  work  of  the 
Church  is  to  carry  out  to  completion  the  mission  of  Christ, 
its  chief  calling  is  to  establish  holiness  in  the  earth.  This 
is  particularly  the  providential  allotment  of  Methodism. 
Mr.  Wesley  never  felt  that  he  was  called  of  God  to  found  a 
denomination  ;  but  he  continually  proclaimed  that  God  had 

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thrust  him  out  to  raise  up  a  holy  people.  The  Methodist 
Discipline  announces  that  our  calling  is  to  spread  '  Scrip- 
tural holiness  over  these  lands.'  Every  minister  ordained  in 
the  connection  believes  in  the  doctrine,  expects  to  be  made 
perfect  in  love  in  this  life,  groans  after  full  redemption, 
and  pledges  fidelity  to  this  calling.  How,  then,  with  any 
consistency,  can  this  topic  be  made  a  specialty  or  an  excep- 
tional thing  in  the  Church '?  It  is  the  common  duty  and 
privilege  of  all  the  thousands  of  our  Israel,  the  aim  of  all 
our  services,  the  end  of  all  our  preaching,  praying,  singing, 
and  evangelizing.  It  is  too  late  to  say  that  we  are  unscrip- 
tural.  The  Gospel  is  full  of  the  thing  we  mean.  It  per- 
vades the  law  and  the  prophets,  the  types  and  promises, 
the  songs  and  sermons,  the  narratives  and  epistles  of  the 
Old  and  New  Testaments.  It  thunders  from  Sinai,  and 
shines  from  the  Mount  of  Beatitudes.  It  comes  down  to 
us  through  the  ages,  attested  by  the  testimony  of  martyrs 
and  saints,  and  we  hail  it  as  the  heritage  of  the  Church  till 
time  shall  end.  Technicalities  are  of  little  value.  Free- 
dom from  sin  is  the  great  thing." 

"The  Central  Idea  of  Christianity,"  by  Bishop  Peck, 
is  a  standard  on  this  theme,  one  of  our  classics.  "Written 
a  quarter  of  a  century  ago,  it  has  lived  and  worked  along 
with  its  author.  In  a  masterly  manner  the  writer  reveals 
the  crystalline  center  of  bur  faith,  the  "  Idea  "about  which 
the  Gospel  forms  itself.  The  venerable  bishop  thus  closes 
his  volume  :  "But  these  are  not  our  appeals.  They  rise 
directly  out  of  the  fact  that  holiness  is  the  central  idea  of 
Christianity.  This  fact,  sustained  by  various  indubitable 
evidences  founded  upon  the  Word  of  God,  is  before  us. 
With  what  views  and  feelings  is  it  contemplated?  What 
disposition  is  to  be  made  of  it  ?  Let  the  reader  answer  on 
his  knees.  Before  the  Searcher  of  hearts  let  him  renounce 
the  world  and  all  carnal  indulgence  forever.  Let  him 
seek  to  secure  permanent  reformation  by  the  purification 
of  the  heart  through  the  blood  of  Christ,  by  the  power  of 


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the  Holy  Ghost;  and  having  proved,  by  a  living,  triumph- 
ant faith,  the  blessedness  of  perfect  love,  let  him  obey  till 
he  dies  the  great  command,  '  Grow  in  grace,  and  in  the 
knowledge  of  our  Lord  and  Savior  Jesus  Christ,'  and  in  a 
heaven  of  unsullied  holiness  he  will  prove  the  fullness  of 
the  Savior's  beatitude,  'Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart,  for 
they  shall  see  God.'"- 

Another  of  our  Christian  classics  is  the  very  scholarly 
and  thorough  work  of  Dr.  George  Peck  entitled,  "  Chris- 
tian Perfection,"  a  volume  which  must  always  occupy  a 
high  place  in  our  literature.  The  author  handles  his  great 
theme  with  the  streugth  of  a  giant,  yet  with  the  tenderness 
of  a  loving  Christian  heart.  This  is  certainly  one  of  the 
best  and  most  judicious  books  on  this  subject  ever  penned. 

Bishop  Foster  laid  the  Church  under  obligation  in  the 
writing  of  his  "  Christian  Purity."  It  is  a  work  abounding 
and  fairly  overflowing  with  choice  paragraphs  on  the 
higher  life.  It  is  full  of  meat,  a  book  hard  to  lay  down, 
one  stimulating  to  holy  meditation  and  to  pious  feeling, 
and  inspiring  to  the  experience  of  heart  purity.  I  can 
give  but  few  of  these  gems:  "The  believer  is  under  obli- 
gation to  possess  all,  to  the  last  degree,  of  that  which  he 
may  possess  in  Christ.  Present  possibility  of  holiness  de- 
termines present  duty  of  holiness."  "  What  the  Gospel 
proposes  as  the  privilege  of  man,  what  it  promises  to  do 
for  him,  particularly  as  it  respects  moral  and  spiritual  ele- 
vation, must  become  the  question  which,  by  force  of  irre- 
sistible attraction,  will  yet  draw  all  minds  and  sway  all 
hearts."  "  The  physical  man  has  had  his  day — a  day 
of  darkness  and  debasement,  of  sensualism  and  crime ;  the 
intellectual  man  is  enjoying  his — a  day  of  refulgence  and 
splendor ;  the  spiritual  man  must  have  his,  and  of  as  su- 
perior brightness  as  the  interests  pertaining  to  the  soul  are 
superior  to  those  pertaining  to  the  perishable  body." 
What  a  trumpet  blast  does  the  good  bishop  sound  in  this: 
u  If  there  be  one  want  of  Christendom,  at  this  time,  greater 


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than  all  others,  it  is  this :  There  is  learning,  there  is  piety, 
there  is  zeal ;  in  our  belief  there  never  was  more,  perhaps 
never  so  much ;  but  there  is  still  something  more  wanted 
than  extraordinary  learning,  piety,  and  zeal.  It  is  that 
entire  consecration,  that  higher  development  of  the  Chris- 
tian life  throughout  the  entire  Church  which  can  never 
take  place  until  she  sees  the  fullness  of  her  privilege  and 
the  terribleness  of  her  obligations.  With  low,  or  even 
medium  views  on  these  points,  she  can  never  pass  into  that 
higher  life,  that  4  fullness  of  the  blessing  of  the  Gospel/ 
that  '  unity  of  the  faith,'  that  dwelling  in  God,  which  she 
must  attain  before  the  world  becomes  regenerate  through 
her  instrumentality."  What  an  earnest  appeal  the  author 
here  makes! — such  an  appeal,  surely,  as  ought  to  move 
any  person  in  whose  soul  is  the  faintest  spark  of  the  new 
life  of  Christ:  "  Taking  the  twin  lamps  of  truth,  the  Bible 
and  conscience,  with  sincere  prayers  for  the  guidance  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  make  that  diligent  search  which  the  im- 
portance of  the  case  requires.  Be  candid  with  yourself. 
Make  no  extenuation,  no  apology ;  use  no  tenderness. 
Ferret  every  recess  thoroughly  ;  probe  to  the  bottom  ;  pass 
through  every  chamber  of  your  soul ;  search  it  through 
and  through  with  a  determination  to  know  your  case,  to 
look  at  yourself  stripped  of  every  disguise.  What  do  you 
find  ?  Are  there  no  idols  in  the  sacred  temple  ?  no  '  images 
of  gold?'  no  '  Babylonish  garments ?'  no  concealed  'spies?' 
no  pride,  no  envy,  no  jealousy,  no  anger,  no  malice,  no 
undue  love  of  the  world,  no  undue  desire  for  the  praise  of 
men,  no  improper  ambition  ?  Does  God  possess  your  heart 
without  a  rival?  Are  you  wholly  the  Lord's?  O  for 
faithfulness!  Would  you  attain  to  holiness?  Linger  at 
this  point.  Have  no  mercy  on  yourself ;  be  resolved  to 
know  the  worst.  You  may  have  such  discoveries  as  will 
astonish  and  distress  you.  Still  make  diligent  search. 
What  is  your  example  ?  Is  it  all  that  a  Christian's  ought 
to  be?    Do  you  daily  exhibit,  in  the  family,  in  the  social 


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circle,  in  your  business,  everywhere,  those  tempers  which 
should  adorn  the  Christian  character  ?  What  is  your  in- 
fluence? Is  it,  so  far  as  it  is  under  your  control,  always 
decidedly  and  undividedly  for  Christ?  With  these  aud 
such  questions  closely  investigate  your  condition,  praying 
for  light  and  guidance  and  conviction.  What  is  the  result? 
Do  you  find  great  want  ?  Are  there  sins  remaining  within 
that  need  to  be  cast  out  ?  What  now  ?  Do  you  feel  your 
need  ?  If  not,  dwell  upon  it,  in  earnest  prayer  for  the 
enlightening  agency  of  the  Spirit,  until  you  do  feel." 

One  of  the  latest  contributions  to  the  literature  of  the 
higher  Christian  life  is  "Love  Enthroned" — a  royal  title, 
and  one  fitting  the  product  of  the  gifted  and  learned  au- 
thor, Rev.  Daniel  Steele,  D.  D.  It  is  a  carefully,  beauti- 
fully, and  earnestly  written  work,  made  the  more  valuable 
and  practical  by  the  introduction  of  the  writer's  own  experi- 
ence, and  the  design  of  which  is,  "  in  true  Pauline  style,  to 
testify  unto  you  the  Gospel  of  the  grace  of  God."  The  vol- 
ume is  thoroughly  Scriptural,  and,  of  course,  must  there- 
fore be  Methodistic.  It  seems  like  a  work  inspired  by  the 
love  of  the  author's  heart.  It  was  certainly  born  of  grat- 
itude for  experiences  possessed  and  desire  to  make  known 
the  high  privileges  of  the  Christian  life  to  others.  Every 
chapter  is  a  jewel.  It  is  a  misfortune  to  any  Christian 
earnestly  desiring  nearness  to  God  to  pass  it  by  unread. 
How  true  are  these  words  :  "  To  how  many  Christian  souls 
is  God  veiled  !  They  have  need  to  pray,  '  Hide  not  thy 
face  from  me.'  Many  of  these  do  not  know  that  God  is 
pleased  to  make  communications  of  grace  which  shall  be 
like  the  removal  of  a  veil  from  the  face  of  one  beloved 
and  adored.  Such  manifestations  of  grace  to  others  are 
believed  to  be  exceptional,  that  only  a  few  persons  of  a 
peculiar  and  delicate  spiritual  organization  can  receive  of 
Christ's  love  ;  whereas  we  are  living  in  a  dispensation  in 
which  more  glorious  unveilings  of  God  to  every  believ- 
ing soul  are  possible  than  was  ever  enjoyed  by  Enoch, 


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METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


Abraham,  Isaiah,  or  Daniel.  '  The  light  of  the  moon  has 
become  as  the  light  of  the  sun,  and  the  light  of  the  sun 
shall  be  sevenfold.'  How  shall  not  the  ministration  of  the 
Spirit  be  rather  glorious  ?"  How  well  would  it  be  if  all 
who  enjoy  not  this  experience  were  to  heed  this  counsel ! — 
"Faith  is  the  only  door  through  which  God  enters  the 
soul.  Cease  philosophizing,  and  take  up  the  work  of  be- 
lieving. No  sinner  would  ever  find  Jesus  if  he  should 
stubbornly  seek  him  wTith  the  lamp  of  reason,  refusing  the 
lamp  of  faith.  No  imperfect  believer  can  grasp  Jesus  as 
the  complete  Savior  so  long  as  he  relies  upon  speculative 
reason  as  a  supplement  of  his  defective  faith.  Pride  of 
intellect,  the  subtilest  form  of  pride,  is  keeping  thousands 
of  Christians  from  that  higher  knowledge  of  God  which  is 
obtained  only  by  climbing  up  the  ladder  of  faith.  It  is  not 
necessary  for  any  soul  to  discriminate  intellectually  between 
regeneration  and  entire  sanctification,  or  between  the 
stream  of  love  shed  abroad  by  the  Spirit  of  adoption  and 
the  ocean  of  love  which  the  abiding  Comforter  pours 
around  the  purified  soul,  in  order  to  enter  upon  this  great 
salvation.  As  it  is  enough  for  the  penitent  to  know  that 
he  is  guilty  and  Jesus  can  pardon,  so  it  is  enough  for  the 
longing  Christian  to  know  that  he  is  hungry,  and  there 
must  be  perfect  satisfaction  somewhere  in  the  universe  cor- 
related to  that  intense  and  painful  appetency." 

Such  is  a  view  of  the  literature  of  the  higher  Christian 
life  as  that  literature  is  provided  by  the  press  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

J.  ALABASTER. 


AN  EVANGELISTIC  AGENCY. 


2G3 


XXIV. 

OUR  LITERATURE  AS  AN  EVANGELISTIC 
AGENCY. 

Methodism  is  a  synonym  for  evangelism.  Its  genius 
is  revivalistic.  A  ''passion  for  souls"  is  inherent  to  its  life. 
This  spirit  has  pervaded  its  history,  and  permeated  all  its 
agencies ;  it  has  gone  into  its  polity,  its  ministry,  its  liter- 
ature. Methodism  has  a  literature  that  is  both  evangelical 
and  evangelistic — a  literature  that  is  not  only  sound  in 
doctrine,  Scriptural  in  spirit,  and  emphatic  respecting  the 
vital  and  saving  truths  of  the  Gospel,  but  which  exalts 
the  conversion  of  souls,  teaches  the  personal  qualifica- 
tions for  it,  and  inspires  a  holy,  intense  enthusiasm  in 
its  prosecution.  While  our  literature  is  wide  in  its  range 
of  Biblical  and  theological  discussions,  rich  and  erudite 
in  its  doctrinal  and  ecclesiastical  treatises,  ample  in  its 
historical  and  biographical  material,  deep  and  spiritual  in 
its  devotional  productions;  yet  had  it  not  a  distinctively 
evangelistic  tendency  all  its  other  excellencies  would  fail 
to  impart  the  knowledge  and  inspiration  indispensable  to 
the  aggressive  work  of  Christianity. 

The  evangelistic  power  is  a  thing  sui  generis.  It  is  a 
gift  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  It  is  more  than  personal  salva- 
tion or  earnest  piety ;  it  is  that  help  of  the  Holy  Spirit  in 
the  experience  of  the  child  of  God  which  makes  his  per- 
sonality and  powers  effective,  and  imparts  to  him  a  sus- 
tained, quenchless  impulse  in  soul-saving. 

This  evangelistic  power  has  been  the  divine  pillar  of 
cloud  by  day  and  the  pillar  of  fire  by  night,  leading  on 
the  Church  in  its  uninterrupted  march  of  holy  triumphs 


264  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


for  eighteen  centuries.  It  is  the  secret  of  the  rapid  growth 
and  grand  achievements  of  early  Methodism.  Whatever, 
therefore,  in  the  agencies  of  our  Church,  tends  to  cultivate 
its  spiritual  power  should  be  known,  appreciate  J,  aud  util- 
ized by  its  ministry  and  membership.  Our  evangelistic 
literature  is  so  full  and  varied  in  its  character  that  everv 
man  of  God  among  us,  whether  in  pulpit  or  pew,  may 
become  thoroughly  furnished  unto  the  work  of  saving- 
souls.  The  shelves  of  our  Book  Concerns  are  loaded  with 
volumes,  every  chapter  of  which  is  like  a  live  coal;  books 
which,  if  even  casually  perused,  kindle  a  warmth  that  is 
uncommon  to  the  heart,  To  exhume  all  the  wealth  and 
exhibit  all  the  power  of  our  evangelistic  literature  would 
require  the  compass  of  a  volume,  rather  than  the  dimen- 
sions of  a  chapter.  Only  a  view  of  the  general  outlines, 
together  with  a  few  of  the  choicest  features,  can  here  be 
given. 

The  wealth  of  our  evangelistic  literature  is  to  be  found 
in  three  mines — our  books,  our  periodicals,  and  our  tracts. 

1.  Our  Books.  Among  these  a  large  number  are  evan- 
gelistic in  design,  treating  of  the  nature,  attainment,  and 
application  of  revival  power.  There  are  also  others,  not 
distinctively  evangelistic  in  title  or  contents,  which  contain 
incidental  passages,  paragraphs,  and  chapters  pregnant 
with  spiritual  thought.  Many  of  our  historical,  biograph- 
ical, homiletic,  periodical,  and  general  works  disseminate 
a  revival  influence ;  for  a  little  leaven  of  spiritual  power 
can  leaven  the  whole  lump  of  an  otherwise  lifeless  and 
fruitless  religious  book.  The  Biblical,  theological,  and 
doctrinal  works  of  Methodism  are  grand  repositories  of 
evangelistic  thought.  Our  Commentaries,  such  as  Clarke's 
Benson's,  Watson's,  Wesley's,  last's,  and  Whedon's, 
abound  in  expositions  and  homiletical  suggestions  so 
quickening  as  to  transform  the  devout  student  of  them 
from  a  passive,  pietistic  life  into  an  aggressive,  soul-saving 
force.    There  is  inherent  in  our  commentaries  that  soul- 


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quickening  power  which  belongs  to  Luther's  expositions. 
It  was  while  listening  to  the  reading  of  Luther's  "  Preface 
to  the  Romans"  that  John  Wesley  * 1  felt  his  heart 
strangely  warmed." 

The  doctrinal  books  of  Methodism  are  many,  and,  as 
a  class,  they  are  able,  safe,  and  Scriptural,  while  some 
are  so  pronounced  in  the  evangelistic  power  as  never  to 
be  read  without  drawing  the  soul  nearer  to  the  source 
of  power.  Fletcher's  works  stand  foremost  in  this  class 
of  books.  No  one  can  read  his  matchless  defense  and 
comprehensive  statements  of  spiritual  truth  without  seeing 
how  doctrinal  theology  may  become  a  living  power  in  soul 
saving,  and  without  coveting  the  gift  of  effectiveness,  and 
without  being  instructed  in  the  way  to  its  attainment. 
Our  theologies,  Watson's,  Raymond's,  and  Pope's,  are  not 
wanting  in  evangelistic  vigor,  though  this  is  not  their 
distinctive  temper. 

The  works  on  different  phases  of  doctrine  are  numer- 
ous: "Atonement,"  by  Miley ;  "  Justification,"  by  Da  vies; 
"  Freedom  of  the  Will,"  by  Whedon  ;  "  Love  Enthroned," 
by  Steele,  a  fresh  and  scholarly  discussion  of  evangelical 
perfection ;  "  Mission  of  the  Holy  Spirit,"  by  Dunn,  a 
masterly  presentation  of  the  personality,  work,  and  dispen- 
sation of  the  Holy  Spirit;  "The  Doctrine  of  the  Holy 
Spirit,"  by  Walker,  emphasizing  some  of  the  operations  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  in  respect  to  human  personality  and  pre- 
vailing prayer.  "Aspects  of  Christian  Experience,"  by 
Bishop  Merrill,  needs  only  to  be  read  to  discover  its  spirit- 
ual as  well  as  its  intellectual  worth;  "The  Philosophy 
of  the  Plan  of  Salvation,"  by  Walker,  is  a  book  belonging 
to  the  category  of  evidences  rather  than  that  of  doctrine. 
It  is  written  in  a  philosophical  style,  and  is  an  adopted 
rather  than  original  book  in  Methodism. 

The  sermonic  literature  of  Methodism  is  a  stream  of 
living  waters.  Its  fountain-head  is  Wesley's  Sermons.  It 
is  a  misfortune  to  any  of  our  ministers  not  to  have  sat- 

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266  METHODISM  AND  LITER  A  TURE. 


urated  themselves  with  them.  Our  preachers  read  South, 
Taylor,  Spurgeon,  Bushnell,  and  Beecher;  but  Wesley 
transcends  them  all  in  that  which  nourishes  "able  minis- 
ters of  the  New  Testament."  "  Watson's  Sermons"  are  in 
the  spirit  and  power  of  the  Elijah  that  came  before  him. 
"  Bishop  Hamline's  Sermons  "  are  freighted  with  revivalistic 
power.  They  are  as  saintly  as  Fletcher's  "  Checks,"  and 
as  finished  as  Punshon's  "Lectures."  "Sermons  on  Con- 
secration," by  A.  C.  George,  have  heart-power  in  them. 
"Simpson's  Yale  Lectures  on  Preaching"  burn  with  the 
holy  flame  that  has  clothed  his  long  and  effective  ministry. 
Many  other  volumes  of  sermons,  and  some  single  sermons, 
deserve  mention,  but  space  forbids. 

The  devotional  books  issued  from  our  presses  are  numer- 
ous. The  Christian  classics,  "Imitation  of  Christ,"  Mrs. 
Rowe's  "  Devout  Exercises  of  the  Heart,"  Baxter's  "  Saints' 
Everlasting  Rest,"  Law's  "  Serious  Call,"  Alleine's  "Alarm," 
"  Extracts  from  Rutherford,"  and  "  Meditations  of  Madame 
Guyon,"  are  well  known.  "All  for  Christ,"  by  T.  Carter; 
"Consecration,"  by  A.  C.  George;  "Mile-stone  Papers," 
byD.  Steele;  "  Triumphing  over  Death,"  by  Hall;  "Death- 
bed Scenes,"  by  Bishop  Clark,  are  later  books,  but  not  in- 
ferior in  evangelistic  power.  These  devotional  works,  to- 
gether with  "Perfect  Love,"  by  J.  A.  Wood,  and  "New 
Testament  Piety,"  by  W.  McDonald,  are  adapted  to  nour- 
ish the  Christian  graces. 

There  are  also  many  other  special  books,  which  are  de- 
voted to  the  promotion  of  evangelism.  "The  Winning 
Worker,"  "  Revivals  of  Religion,"  and  "Camp-meetings," 
by  Porter,  are  a  whole  curriculum  of  themselves  in  the  line 
of  Christian  endeavor.  "The  Gift  of  Power,"  by  Piatt; 
"God's  Method  with  Man,"  by  Gorham  ;  "Faith  and  its 
Effects,"  by  Phoebe  Palmer;  and  the  "  Tongue  of  Fire,"  by 
Arthur,  form  a  library  which  would  make  its  student,  like 
Barnabas,  a  man  full  of  faith  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 

2.  Our  Periodical  Literature.    The  great  family  of  our 


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"Advocates"  contain  currently  such  inspiring  religious  in- 
telligence, ample  reports  of  revivals,  thrilling  narratives 
of  dying  triumphs,  interesting  descriptions  of  heroic  labors 
for  souls,  refreshing  discussions  of  methods,  and  earnest 
presentations  of  spiritual  truth  as  to  exert  a  wonderful  in- 
fluence upon  the  soul.  One  of  these,  by  the  accurate  and 
elaborate  account  it  gave  weekly  of  the  great  revival  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  under  the  labors  of  Rev.  Thomas  Harri- 
son, scattered  its  fire  throughout  its  patronizing  territory. 
He  who  reads  regularly  one  of  our  Church  papers  will 
have  a  sustained  interest  in  and  sympathy  for  the  revival- 
istic  work  of  Methodism.  There  are  also  some  special 
periodicals,  not  all  of  them  issued  from  our  own  presses, 
that  are  recognized  forces  in  Church  work.  These  we  can 
not  name  here. 

Our  Berean  Lesson  publications  are  entitled  to  take 
rank  among  our  evangelistic  forces.  They  are  not  only 
safe,  but  saving  in  their  influence.  It  has  been  noticeable 
of  late  how  largely  the  fruit  of  revivals  has  been  gathered 
from  among  those  attendant  upon  our  Sabbath-schools. 
The  Berean  sowing  of  nine  years  past  is  now  yielding  a 
precious  harvest  in  souls.  "  The  Sunday-school  Journal" 
is  no  doubt  raising  up  many  of  the  wise  who  shall  shine 
as  the  brightness  of  the  firmament,  and  multiplying  the 
number  of  those  who  shall  turn  many  to  righteousness  and 
shine  as  the  stars  for  ever.  The  11  Lesson  Leaves"  are  in 
like  manner  proving  themselves  efficacious  for  the  spiritual 
redemption  and  health  of  our  children  and  youth. 

3.  Our  Tract  Literature.  A  careful  examination  of  the 
tract  publications  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  will 
reveal  the  fact  that  in  them  we  have  a  wide  range  of 
works,  able  in  literary  excellence,  largely  spiritual,  and 
systematized  .in  convenient  series.  The  number  adapted 
to  awakening  sinners,  encouraging  penitents,  instructing 
converts,  perfecting  believers,  and  increasing  the  ^work- 
ing power  of  the  Church,  is  very  large.     Its  "  Pocket 


268  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


Series"  is  concise  and  entertaining,  and  so  available  in 
form  as  to  enable  every  Christian  business,  professional, 
traveling,  or  laboring  man  to  be  a  daily  evangelistic  col- 
porteur, doing  good  as  they  have  opportunity.  The 
4 'Leaflet  Series"  is  serviceable  for  scattering  far  and  wide 
the  seeds  of  spiritual  truth ;  and  these  are  re-enforced  by 
the  "New  Series,"  the  "Revised  Series,"  the  "Selected 
Series,"  and  the  "Tract  Book  Series." 

Testimonials  are  not  wanting  attesting  the  usefulness  of 
tracts.  One  alone  in  our  list,  the  "  Dairyman's  Daughter," 
has  been  instrumental  in  scores,  if  not  hundreds,  of  con- 
versions. The  consecrated  wrorkers  of  Methodism  will  find 
our  tracts  a  healthful  arm  of  power  in  enhancing  their 
evangelistic  usefulness.  Tracts  are  appreciated  by  those 
who  are  spiritual  and  aglow  with  love  for  souls.  Such  do 
not  despise  the  day  of  small  things.  They  have  learned 
how  pebbles,  hurled  in  faith,  slay  giants.  A  scholarly 
and  successful  minister  said,  "  Never  until  I  received  ' the 
baptism  of  fire'  did  I  know  the  worth  of  tracts." 

Our  resume  of  the  evangelistic  resources  of  the  litera- 
ture of  Methodism  is  not  exhaustive,  yet  it  shows  how 
prolific  it  is  in  productions  adapted  to  beget,  increase,  and 
apply  evangelistic  power. 

If  the  Church  should  decline  in  revival  power,  it  will 
be  no  fault  of  her  literature ;  for  it  is  abundant,  and  there 
lives  in  it  the  baptism  of  fire  which  crowrned  the  head  of 
its  tireless  and  successful  founder. 

S.  A.  KEEN". 


ORGANIZING  CHURCH  LIBRARIES.  269 


XXV. 

A  PLAN  FOR  ORGANIZING  A  CHURCH 
LIBRARY. 

If  John  Wesley  can  be  called  the  father  of  cheap  re- 
ligious literature  he  can  also  be  called  the  father  of  the 
Church  library  idea.  At  London,  Bristol,  and  Newcastle 
he  established  libraries  for  himself  and  his  assistants,  in 
each  of  which  the  nucleus  consisted  of  fifty  well-selected 
volumes.  It  is  curious,  as  well  as  instructive,  to  note  the 
distribution  of  the  subjects  and  the  proportionate  number 
of  books  given  to  each  by  the  conference  in  these  libraries. 
They  consisted  of  eleven  books  on  divinity,  four  on  physic, 
two  on  natural  philosophy,  one  (Whiston)  on  astronomy, 
one  (the  Universal)  on  history,  two  (Spenser  and  Milton) 
on  poetry,  sixteen  in  Latin,  twelve  in  Greek,  and  one 
(Buxtorf 's  Bible)  in  Hebrew. 

What  was  done  by  Methodism  in  1745,  in  a  circum- 
scribed way,  is  now  proposed  to  be  done  throughout  the 
whole  Church,  for  the  benefit  and  culture  of  all  the  mem- 
bership. The  multiplication  of  libraries  of  a  somewhat 
doubtful  character,  the  pestiferous  streams  of  moral  pol- 
luted literature  which  are  flowing  from  the  press,  and  the 
insatiable  thirst  of  the  present  generation  for  reading  mat- 
ter require  that  the  Church,  as  a  matter  of  self-defense, 
shall  counteract  the  evil  by  furnishing  mental  food  for  her 
membership,  and  especially  for  the  young,  that  shall  not 
only  stimulate,  but  edify,  confirm,  instruct,  and  elevate, 
morally  and  spiritually. 

This  object  is  met  in  the  establishment  of  the  Church 
library.     The  literature  adapted  to  this  purpose  is  so 


270  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 

varied,  rich,  and  inexpensive,  that  the  humblest  Church 
organization  can  afford  to  form  the  nucleus  of  a  library, 
which  will,  in  course  of  time,  not  only  increase  in  volume, 
but  will  also  contribute  to  the  intellectual  growth  and  in- 
fluence of  the  Church.  If  thought  advisable,  there  might 
be  a  combination  of  the  Sunday-school  and  Church  library, 
and  it  is  possible  that  some  of  the  evils  heretofore  com- 
plained of  in  the  Sunday-school  library,  by  the  greater 
diligence  and  scrutiny  that  would  be  imparted,  would  thus 
be  avoided.  The  lax  manner  in  which  many  of  these  ju- 
venile libraries  were  formerly  selected  would  give  place  to 
greater  care,  and  the  increased  interest  in  literature  would 
tend  to  make  the  Church  the  intellectual  and  moral,  as 
well  as  religious,  center  of  the  community. 

In  the  beginning  the  library  should  be  founded.  It  is 
the  glory  of  such  men  as  Astor,  Peabody,  and  Carnegie, 
that  after  the  death  of  these  men,  their  works  do  follow 
them.  The  library  remains  not  only  a  monument  to  their 
memory,  but  a  constantly  augmenting  power  for  good. 
Now,  although  our  people  may  not  be  able  to  give  what 
these  wealthy  men  have  done,  they  can  do  something 
toward  the  founding  of  a  library.  In  every  congregation, 
however  obscure,  may  be  found  a  few  men  who  can  fur- 
nish the  youth  of  their  community  with  more  books  than 
Horace  Greeley  had  access  to  in  his  young  manhood,  and 
they  may  thus  become  the  unconscious  formers  of  habits 
and  cultivators  of  intellects  that  otherwise  might  lie  dor- 
mant. In  the  work  of  forming  these  libraries  liberal- 
minded  men,  desirous  of  benefiting  the  young,  and  who 
themselves  were  deprived  of  such  advantages  in  their 
youth,  have  already  given  large  sums  to  this  work. 

But  if  no  men  of  means  should  be  found  ready  to  step 
into  the  breach,  let  not  the  humblest  Church  despair.  Mem- 
bership at  a  dollar  a  year  will  enable  such  a  Church  to  lay 
a  good  foundation  for  a  library.  Let  the  matter  be  pressed 
upon  the  attention  of  all;  let  it  be  shown  that  by  com- 


ORGANIZING  CHURCH  LIBRARIES  271 


billing  the  resources  the  general  good  will  be  effected ;  let 
the  books  be  valuable  and  well  chosen,  and  the  library 
must  grow,  and  grow  to  such  proportions  that  the  sacrifices 
that  may  be  necessary  for  its  implantation  will  be  amply 
compensated  by  its  usefulness  and  success. 

The  Church  evidently  contemplates  that  the  subject  of 
general  education  shall  be  made  prominent.  It  has  already 
made  provision  in  its  ecclesiastical  councils  for  committees 
on  the  subject.  A  committee  on  education  is  annually 
elected  in  every  Church,  and  it  would  be  a  great  further- 
ance of  the  cause,  if,  at  the  time  of  their  election,  the  pre- 
siding elder  should  explain  that  this  work  of  founding 
libraries  legitimately  comes  under  their  supervision.  In 
the  constitution  governing  library  associations  in  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church,  it  will  be  seen  that  cognizance  has 
been  taken  of  this  committee,  and  that  it  is  a  constitu- 
tional factor  in  all  such  associations. 

The  work  of  organizing  libraries  has  been  in  progress 
for  a  few  years  past,  and  the  enterprise  is  meeting  with  a 
large  measure  of  success.  In  those  places  where  libraries 
have  been  established  longest  the  interest  continues  una- 
bated. Let  every  Church  make  provision  for  the  intel- 
lectual development  of  its  own  congregation.  Let  the 
beautiful  membership  certificates  of  shares,  which  have 
been  so  neatly  and  artistically  prepared,  be  distributed 
throughout  all  the  membership  as  insignia  of  progress  and 
wisdom,  and  let  the  work  of  circulating  our  literature  by 
this  process  engage  the  thought  and  co-operation  of  all  the 
office-bearers  and  well-wishers  of  the  Church.  So  shall  we 
contribute  to  the  moral  and  intellectual  advancement  of 
the  race,  and  harvests  shall  go  on  blooming  in  the  long 
years  of  the  future. 

We  append  a  copy  of  the  "  Constitution  and  By-laws 
governing  Library  Associations  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,"  from  which  will  be  seen  the  practicability  and 
feasibility  of  the  movement.    They  are  as  follows : 


272  METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


CONSTITUTION. 

ARTICLE  I. — NAME. 

This  Association  shall  be  called  the  Library  Association  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of   . 

ARTICLE  II. — OBJECT. 

The  object  of  this  Association  shall  be  to  provide  its  mem- 
bers with  pure,  instructive,  and  religious  reading. 

ARTICLE  III. — QUARTERLY  CONFERENCE  COMMITTEE. 

The  Quarterly  Conference  Committee  on  Education,  as  pro- 
vided for  in  the  Book  of  Discipline  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  shall  be  ex-officio  members  of  this  Association,  and  also 
of  the  Board  of  Control,  with  right  to  speak  and  vote  upon  all 
questions. 

ARTICLE  IV. — MEMBERSHIP. 

Membership  in  this  Association  shall  be  represented  by 
shares  of  one  dollar  each,  and  shall  be  renewed  annually  by 
the  additional  payment  of  one  dollar.  And  any  shareholder 
shall  be  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  of  the  Association. 

ARTICLE  V. — LIFE  MEMBERS. 

Any  person  donating  at  one  time  the  sum  of  twenty-five 
dollars  to  this  Library  Association  shall  be  constituted  a  life 
member  of  the  Association,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  all  its 
privileges. 

ARTICLE  VI. — HONORARY  MEMBERS. 

Any  person  donating  at  one  time  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
dollars  to  this  Library  Association  shall  be  constituted  an  hon- 
orary member  of  this  Association,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  all 
the  privileges  of  regular  membership  for  life;  shall  also  have 
the  privilege  of  meeting  with  the  Board  of  Control,  and  speak- 
ing upon  all  questions  pertaining  to  the  management  of  this 
Association;  and  also  of  designating  each  year  five  persons, 
who  shall  thereupon  be  entitled  to  receive  certificates  of  mem- 
bership for  that  calendar  year. 


ORGANIZING  CHURCH  LIBRARIES.  273 


ARTICLE  VII. 

Any  person  purchasing  one  or  more  shares  may  transfer  the 
same,  or  any  number  thereof,  to  any  person  or  persons  whom 
he  may  elect,  and  said  persons  shall  become  members  of  the 
Association  and  entitled  to  all  its  privileges. 

ARTICLE  VIII. — OFFICERS. 

The  officers  of  this  Association  shall  be  a  President,  Vice- 
president,  Treasurer,  and  Librarian,  who  shall  act  as  Secretary ; 
each  performing  the  duties  pertaining  to  the  respective  office. 

ARTICLE  IX. — BOARD  OF  CONTROL. 

There  shall  be  a  Board  of  Control  composed  of  the  officers 
of  the  Association,  the  Quarterly  Conference  Committee  on  Ed- 
ucation, and  five  members  of  the  Association,  to  be  elected 
annually  at  the  regular  election  of  officers ;  provided  that  two- 
thirds  of  said  Board  of  Control  shall  be  members  of  the  Meth- 
odist Episcopal  Church. 

ARTICLE  X. — GENERAL  MANAGEMENT. 

The  Board  of  Control  shall  have  general  management  of  all 
the  affairs  of  the  Association,  shall  fill  any  vacancy  which  may 
occur  in  the  board  of  officers,  shall  appoint  a  committee  of 
three  members  of  the  Association,  of  which  the  pastor  of  the 
Church  shall  be  chairman,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  determine 
what  books  shall  be  placed  in  the  library ;  this  committee  being 
authorized  to  purchase  such  books  at  any  time,  provided  there 
are  sufficient  funds  in  the  treasury. 

ARTICLE  XI. — ELECTION  OF  OFFICERS. 

Section  1.  The  pastor  of  the  Church  shall  be  ex-qfficio  Pres- 
ident of  this  Association. 

Sec.  2.  The  other  officers  of  this  Association  shall  be  elected 
annually,  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  January ;  notice  of  such  elec- 
tion being  previously  given  in  the  public  congregation. 

Sec.  3.  All  elections  shall  be  by  ballot,  and  a  majority  of 
the  votes  cast  shall  constitute  an  election. 

ARTICLE  XII. — APPLICATION  FOR  MEMBERSHIP. 

Application  for  membership  shall  be  received  at  any  time, 
and  certificates  of  shares  issued  by  the  President,  provided  such 
membership  shall  date  with  the  beginning  of  the  current  year. 


274 


METHODISM  AND  LITERATURE. 


BY-LAWS. 

1.  The  President  shall  sign  all  shares  issued  by  the  Asso- 
ciation. 

2.  None  but  members  of  the  Association  shall  have  access 
to  the  Library. 

3.  No  member  shall  retain  a  book  in  his  possession  for  a 
longer  period  than  two  weeks,  nor  have  more  than  one  book 
at  the  same  time. 

4.  Any  member  retaining  a  book  for  a  longer  period  than 
two  weeks  without  renewal  shall  be  fined  ten  cents  for  each 
wTeek,  or  fractional  part  of  a  week,  he  retains  such  book  there- 
after, and  shall  not  be  allowed  to  draw  another  book  from  the 
library  until  such  fine  is  paid. 

5.  Members  shall  be  held  responsible  for  the  proper  care 
of  books  in  their  possession. 

6.  No  member  drawing  books  will  be  allowed,  under  any 
condition,  to  exchange  books  with  other  members. 

7.  At  the  instance  of  three  members  of  the  Board  of  Control 
the  President  may  call  a  special  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Con- 
trol, or  of  the  Association,  for  the  transaction  of  business. 

8.  Five  members  of  the  Board  of  Control  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business. 

9.  Fifteen  members  of  the  Association  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business  in  meetings  of  the 
Association. 

10.  No  member  of  the  Association  shall  have  more  than  one 
vote  upon  any  question,  or  in  the  election  of  officers. 

11.  The  Constitution  and  By-laws  of  this  Association  can  be 
altered  or  amended  only  by  a  two-thirds  majority  of  all  mem- 
bers of  the  Association. 

EDITOR. 


Select  Books 

FOR 

THE  HOME,  THE  CHURCH, 

AND  THE 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL. 


PREFATORY  NOTE. 


In  the  preparation  of  the  subjoined  catalogue,  the  editor 
acknowledges  his  indebtedness  for  assistance  and  for  favors  re- 
ceived to  the  following-named  publishers :  Houghton,  Mifflin  & 
Co.;  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.;  Henry  A.  Sumner  &  Co.;  Macmillan  & 
Co.;  Porter  &  Coates;  E.  Ciaxton  &  Co.;  E.  P.  Dutton  &  Co.; 
G.  P.  Putman's  Sons;  Harper  &  Brothers;  D.  Appleton  &  Co. \ 
Anson  D.  F.  Randolph  &  Co.;  Presbyterian  Board  of  Publica- 
tions; Lee  &  Shepard;  A.  C.  Armstrong  &  Sons;  National 
Temperance  Society  and  Publication  House;  Dodd,  Mead  & 
Co.;  J.  R.  Osgood  &  Co.;  Jansen,  McClurg  &  Co.;  Robert 
Clarke  &  Co. 

The  catalogue  is  copious  and  varied,  but  a  careful  examina- 
tion has  been  made  of  the  works  named,  and  they  are  believed 
to  be  well  adapted  to  the  purposes  designed.  It  would  have 
been  easy  to  select  five  hundred  of  the  choicest  rather  than  one 
thousand,  or  to  name  one  thousand  rather  than  five  thousand ; 
but  as  tastes  and  wants  differ,  a  smaller  number  wrould  not 
have  answered  our  purpose.  We  have  aimed  to  include  no 
books  of  a  doubtful  character,  and  to  make  choice  of  those  only 
which  are  valuable  for  reading.  Had  we  selected  books  for  ref- 
erence or  consultation  alone,  many  hundreds  more  might  well 
have  found  a  place  here ;  but  as  these  volumes  are  intended 
for  circulation  in  homes,  and  to  be  read  in  the  parlor  and  by 
the  fireside,  the  selection  was  limited  by  the  end  and  purpose 
intended  to  be  attained.  Nor  have  we  included  all  adapted  to 
meet  this  want ;  but  we  have  given  those  wrhich,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  good  critics,  will  serve  to  instruct  the  mind,  enlarge 
the  heart,  and  sweeten  and  beautify  the  life. 

J 


Catalogue  of  Books. 


***  In  the  following  Catalogue  the  volumes  are  to  be  understood  as  bound 
In  cloth,  except  where  otherwise  designated.  €or  ea,  where  it  is  prefixed  to 
the  price,  denotes  each ;  and  n  denotes  net.    Books  for  youths  are  marked  *. 


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■IMAll/tJU  UV  VvIld/IlcS  J?  I  ctllClS  /VLU1JJ1S. 

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Admiral  Coligny ;  and  the  Rise  of  the  Huguenots. 

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A  el m nni f nT*v  (~,r»nn«ipl«!  \c\  a   TVTptV>r»rli«f  Tiab-o-nrckll 

(John). 

18° 

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*Adventures  in  Canada.    Geike  (John  C.)  Illust. 

16° 

1  00 

Adventures  in  Patagonia.  A  Missionary  Exploring 

Trip.    Coan  (Titus). 

12° 

1  25 

*  Adventures  of  a  Young  Naturalist.  Blant  (Lucien). 

Illust. 

12° 

1  75 

*  Ad  ventures  of  Telemachus.  Fenelon  (Archbishop). 

Illust. 

8° 

2  00 

♦Adventures  on  the  Great  Hunting  Grounds.  Meu- 

nier  (V.)  Illust. 

12° 

1  25 

Advice  to  One  who  Meets  in  Class.  Newstead 

(Robert). 

72° 

15 

*jEsop's  Fables.  Illust. 

12° 

1  25 

♦^Esop's  Fables.    With  Life  of  the  Author,  and 

Croxall's  Applications.  Illust. 

12° 

1  50 

278 


CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


^Eneids  of  Virgil,  The.    Morris  (William).  8°   $2  50 

vEneids  of  Virgil,  The.  Rendered  into  English  oc- 
tosyllabic verse.    Conington  (John).  8°  nl  50 

Afflicted,  Companion  for  the.   Walker  (Thos.  H.)    12°  90 

Africa,  Diamond  Fields  of  South.  1  50 

Africa.    Through  the  Dark  Continent.  Stanley 

(H.  M.)    lllust.    2  vols.  8°  eh  00 

Africa.    Livingstone's  Last  Journals.    Waller  (H.)    8°     2  50 

Africa,  Hunting  Scenes  in  the  Wilds  of.   Illust.      12°     1  75 
♦Africa,  Livingstone  in.   Jewett  (S.  A.  W.)   Illust.    16°     1  00 
*African  Adventure  and  Adventurers.    An  epitome 
of  the  elaborate  works  of  Bruce,  Speke  and 
Grant,  Baker  and  Livingstone.  Edited  by  G.  T. 
Day.    Illust.  16°     1  50 

African  Hunting  from  Natal  to  the  Zambesi.  Bald- 
win (W,  C.)    Illust.  12°     1  50 
*Afternoons  with  Grandma.    From  the  French  of 
Madame  Garraud.     Kinmont    (Mrs.  Mary). 
Illust.  16°     1  00 
*After  the  Truth.  Henry  (Mrs.  Sarepta  M.  I.)  Part 
I— Finding;   Part  II— Teaching;   Part  Ill- 
Using;  Part  IV — Husbandman — Plowing.  4 
vols.                                                          16°  el  00 
*Against  the  Stream.    The  story  of  an  heroic  age  in 
England.    By  the  author  of  "  The  Schonberg- 
Cotta  Family."                                             12°     1  00 

Age,  Temptation  of  American  Christians,  and 
Christ's  own  Method  of  Gaining  the  Victory 
and  the  Kingdom.  12°     1  25 

Ages  Before  Moses,  The.    A  Series  of  Lectures  on 

the  Book  of  Genesis.  Gibson  (John  M.)  12°  1  25 
*Agnes  and  Her  Neighbors.    Pratt  (Frances  Lee).    16°     1  50 

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Jackson  (fcneluonj.  lliust. 

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iiiconoi  anu.  ine  oiaie.    a  uiscussion  01  uie  irroo- 

lem  of  Law  as  Applied  to  the  Liquor-traffic. 

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1  to 

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rid to  Moscow,  including  Spain,  Switzerland, 

Russia,  Finland,  Norway,  Sweden,  Poland,  and 

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Denmark.    Prime  (S.  I.)  Illust. 

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viatty  ^ivirs.  Aiirea;. 

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a  Noble  Victory  at  last.  Illust. 

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ward A.)  Illust. 

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xiappy.    ±>eecnei  ^ivirs.  xi.  w.) 

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All  Around  the  Year.    Verses  from  the  Sky  Farm. 

Goodale  (Elaine  and  Dora  R.)  Illust. 

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by  a  Renewed  Consecration  of  his  Heart,  the 

Fullness  of  Joy  Referred  to  by  the  Savior  Just 

Previous  to  his  Crucifixion.  With  Illustrations 

from  the  Lives  of  those  who  have  made  this 

Consecration.    Carter  (Thomas). 

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AtC 
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aii  xrue.    xtecorcis  01  .rem  ano  Adventure ,  es- 

capes and  Deliverances  |  of  Missionary  Enter- 

prises,  etc.    lviticduiay  \a..  l>.) 

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All  Quiet  Along  the  Potomac,  and  Other  Poems. 

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becca G.) 

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Quincey  (Thos.) 

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Illust. 

8° 

nl  60 

Ancient  History,  Manual  of.    From  the  Earliest 

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Rawlinson  (George). 

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of  the  Ancient  Eastern  World.  Rawlinson 

(George).    Illust.   3  vols. 

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8° 

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Recent  Discoveries  of  the  Microscope.  Illust. 

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*Anna  Maylie.   A  Story  of  Faithful,  Resolute  Work 

in  the  Sunday-school,  and  in  the  Field  of  the 

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16° 

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18° 

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Illust.  16°     1  00 

Annihilation  of  the  Wicked,  Scripturally  Consid- 
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iam M.)  16°     1  25 

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Apology  for  the  Bible.    A  Powerful  Antidote  to 

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*Arctic  Heroes.  Facts  and  Incidents  of  Arctic  Ex- 
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being  the  Narrative  of  an  Expedition  in  Search 
of  Sir  John  Franklin,  in  the  Years  I860,  1861, 
and  1862.  Hall  (Charles  Francis).  Maps  and 
Illustrations.  8°     5  00 

Arena  and  Throne,  The.    Townsend  (L.  T.)  16°  75 

Arizona  and  Sonora.  The  Geography,  History, 
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America.    Mowry  (S.)  12°     1  50 

Arms  and  Armor  in  Antiquity  and  the  Middle 
Ages.  Also  a  Descriptive  Notice  of  Modern 
Weapons.   Lacombe  (M.  P.)    Illust.  12°     1  50 

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Arthur  in  America.    Addresses  delivered  in  New 

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Decoration.  Garrett  (Rhoda  and  Agnes).  Illust.  12°  1  50 
Art,  Literature,  and  Science,  Reviews  and  Essays 

on.    Phelps  (Mrs.  A.  L.)  12°     1  50 

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^Captivity  of  Judah,  The.  Illust. 

18° 

60 

Carlyle,  Thomas.   His  Life— His  Books— His  Theo- 

ries.   Guernsey  (A.  H.) 

18° 

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12° 

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•Carolina,  the  Hotel  -  keeper's  Daughter.  Berry 

(Mrs.  M.  E.)  Illust. 

16° 

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Illust. 

16° 

1  25 

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16° 

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Cartwright,  Peter.    Autobiography  of.    Edited  by 

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(Daniel.) 

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90 

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to  Primitive  Christianity.    Withrow  (W.  H.) 

must. 

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Rome.  Illust. 

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75 

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*Chautauqua  Girls  at  Home,  The.    By  Pansy  (Mrs. 

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Chautauqua  Text-books,  The. 

No.  1.  Biblical   Exploration.      A  Condensed 
Manual  on  How  to  Study  the  Bible.  Vin- 
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erary and  Scientific  Circle.  nlO 
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Glimpses  of  Education  in  the  Sixteenth  Cen- 
tury. Phelps  (Wm.  F.)  nlO 
No.  18.  Christian  Evidences.  Vincent  (J.  H.)  nlO 
No.  19.  The  Book  of  Books.    Freeman  (J.  M.)  n  10 


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n  10 

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71 10 

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~%  OA 

n  JO 

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7110 

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No.  27.  Readings  from  Ancient  Classics. 

71  1U 

No.  28.  Manners  and  Customs  of  Bible  Times. 

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(J.  H.) 

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(J.  H.) 

71  10 

No.  37.  Assembly  Normal  Outlines.  Vincent 

(J.  H.) 

nlO 

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Birth  and  Growth  of  Myths  and  Legends. 
Clodd  (E.)  12°     1  25 

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nings of  English  History.    Armitage  (Ella  S.)  16°     1  25 
*Child's  History  of  England.    Dickens  (Charles).      12°     1  00 
^Child's  History  of  Greece.    Bonner.    2  vols.  18°   e  1  25 

*Child-life.     A  Collection  of  Poems  for  and  about 

Children.    Whittier  (J.  G.)  16°     2  25 

*Child-life,  in  Prose.   A  Volume  of  Stories,  Fancies, 

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China  and  Japan.  A  Record  of  Observations  made 
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Christ  a  Friend.    Adams  (Nehemiah).  12°      1  00 

Christ  Bearing  Witness  to  Himself.  Chadwick 

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Christ  and  Christianity.  A  Vindication  of  the  Di- 
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grounded  on  the  Historical  verity  of  the  Life 
of  Christ.    Alexander  (William  L.)  12°  85 

Christ  Crucified.     [Divinity  of  Christ.]  Clarke 

(George  W.)  18°  50 

Christ:  His  Nature  and  Work.    A  Series  of  Ser- 
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Christ  in  Modern  Life.  [Sermons.]  Brooke  (Stop- 
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Christ  of  History,  The.    Young  (John).                12°     1  25 
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Christian  Effort.  Facts  and  Incidents.  Baker  (Sarah).  18°  45 
Christian  Ethics.    Wuttke  (Adolpu).  Translated 

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Christian  Student.    Otheman  (Edward).  18°  40 

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Christianity  and  Greek  Philosophy ;  or  the  Relation 
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The  Martyrs  and  Apologists. 

Heresy  and.  Christian  Doctrine. 

Christian  Life  and  Practice  in  the  Early  Church. 

Christianity  Tested  by  Eminent  Men :  Being  Brief 

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^Eleanor's  Three  Birthdays.    McKeever  (Harriet  B. ) 

16° 

1 

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^Electa  :  A  Story  of  a  Minister's  Daughter.  Conk- 

lin  (Mrs.  N.) 

12° 

1 

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Elements  of  Intellectual  Science.    Porter  (Noah). 

8° 

3 

00 

*Elfreda.    A  Sequel  to  Leofwine.    Leslie  (Emma). 

Illust, 

12° 

1 

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Elijah  the  Favored  Man.    A  Life  and  its  Lessons 

for  to-day.    Patterson  (R.  M.) 

16° 

1 

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Elijah  the  Prophet,    Taylor  (Wm.  M.) 

12° 

1 

50 

-  Elizabeth  Christine,  \\  lie  of  Frederick  the  Great. 

From  German  and  Other  Sources.  Hurst  (Cath- 

erine E.)    5  Illust. 

16° 

1 

25 

*Elizabeth  Tudor.    The  Queen  and  the  Woman. 

Townsend  (Virginia  F.)  Illust. 

16° 

1 

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16° 

4 

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Ellerslie  House.        Kate  and  Her  Cousins. 

Alice  Thome.           "W  reck  of  the  Osprey. 

Elocution,  The  Science  of.    With  Exercises  and 

Selections  Arranged  for  Acquiring  the  Art  of 

Reading  and  Speaking.    Hamill  (S.  S.) 

12° 

1 

50 

*Elsie  Dinsmore.    Finley  (Martha). 

16° 

1 

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*Elsie's  Girlhood.    Finley  (Martha). 

16° 

1 

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*Elsie's  Holiday  at  Roselands.    Finley  (Martha). 

16° 

1 

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'^Elsie's  Womanhood.    Finley  (Martha). 

16° 

1 

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16° 

1 

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■  -Elsie  s  Children.    Finley  (Martha). 

10° 

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16° 

1 

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12° 

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16° 

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*Emily  Douglas ;  or,  A  Year  with  the  Camerons. 

16° 

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*Einily  Vernon ;  or,  Filial  Piety  Exemplified.  Drum- 

mond  (Mrs.) 

16° 

85 

Eminent  English  Liberals.  Davidson  (J.  Morrison). 

16° 

1 

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Emory,  Bishop,  Life  of.    Emory  (R.) 

8° 

1 

75 

Emotions  of  the  Will,  The.    Bain  (Alex.) 

8° 

5 

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Encyclopedia  of  Religious  Knowledge.    Edited  by 

J.  Newton  Brown.  Sheep. 

8° 

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•End  of  a  Coil,  The.   Warner  (Miss  Anna).           12°  $1  75 

Endless  Punishment.    Adams  (Nehemiah).            12°  100 

England's  Antiphon.    MacDonald  (George).           12°  1  75 

*England  Two  Hundred  Years  Ago.  Gillett  (E.  H.)  16°  1  50 
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Century.  Charles  worth  (Maria  L.)  12°  1  50 
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the  English   Colonies   in   America.  Lodge 


(Henry  Cabot).  Half-leather. 

8° 

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English  Governess  at  the  Siamese  Court.  Leon- 

owens  (Anna  H.) 

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English  Literature,  History  of.    Taine  (H.  A.) 

2  vols,  in  one. 

16° 

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English  Literature  in  the  Reign  of  Victoria.  With 

a  Glance  at  the  Past.    Morley  (Henry). 

8° 

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English  Men  of  Letters.  Edited  by  Morley  (John).  12° 

€75 

Johnson.   Stephen  (Leslie).  Milton.    Pattison  (Mark). 

Gibbon.   Morrison  (Jas.  C.)  Sonthey.   Dowden  (Edward). 

Scott.   Hutton  (R.  H.)  Bunyan.   Froude  (J.  A.) 

Shelley.   Symonds  (Jno.  A.)  Chaucer.   Ward  (A.  W.) 

Goldsmith.   Black  (Wm.)  Cowper.   Smith  (Goldwin). 

Hume.   Huxley  (Prof.)  Pope.   Stephen  (Leslie). 

DeFoe.   Minto  (Wm.)  Byron.   Nichol  (John). 

Burns.   Shairp  (Principal).  Locke.   Fowler  (Thomas). 

Spenser.  Church  (R.  W.)  Wordsworth.  Myers  (F.) 
Thackeray.  Trollope  (Ant'y).  Dryden.   Saintsbury  (G.) 

Burke.   Morley  (John).  Landor.  Colvin  (Prof.  S.) 

De  Quincey.   Masson.(D.)  Hawthorne.   James  (Henry). 

•English  Alice.  Illust. 
English  Men  of  Science :  Their  Nature  and  Nur 

ture.    Gal  ton  (Francis). 
English  Note-book.    Hawthorne  (N.)    2  vols. 
English  Poets,  The.    Student's  Edition. 

Vol.  1.  Chaucer  to  Donne. 
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•Entertainments.  For  Concerts,  Exhibitions,  Parlor 
Gatherings,  Church  Festivals,  etc.  Champney 
(Lizzie  W.)    Illust.  16°     1  00 

•Envelope,  The  Full;  or,  Gleanings  for  Youthful 

Readers.  Donkersley  (Richard).  1  illust.  16°  85 
Ephphatha;  or,  the  Amelioration  of  the  World. 

Farrar  (F.  W.)  12°     1  50 


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Episcopal    Controversy    and    Defense.  Emory 

^x»isiiopj.    I  VOL 

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Episcopal  Controversy  Reviewed.  Emory  (Bishop). 

QO 

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1Z 

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Ep worth.  Singers,  The  j  and  Other  Poets  of  Meth- 

uuism.    vyiirioLopiitjr  {o,  vv .) 

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ji<ra oi  tnc x roiesiani -ttevoiution,  ine.  oeeDonm  yc.) 

lb 

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Essays  on  Educational  Reformers,  The.  Quick 

CR  H  ) 

19° 

1  ou 

Essays:  Historical  and  Miscellaneous.  Macaulay. 

3  vols. 

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The  same,  in  1  vol. 

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Eucharist,  Nature  and  Design  of  the.  Clarke 

(Adam). 

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1  9° 

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^Evening  Rest.    Under  the  Shadow  of  the  Great 

Shepherd.  Illust. 

16° 

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America.    Ramsey  (Mrs.)  Illust. 

16° 

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*Every  Man  in  His  Place.  A  Story  for  Boys.  Illust, 

16° 

Evangelical  Rationalism ;  or,  A  Consideration  of 

Truths  Practically  Related  to  Man's  Probation. 

Knox  (L.  L.) 

16° 

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Evangelist,  The  True.    Porter  (J.) 

16° 

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*Every  Inch  a  King.  A  Story  Illustrating  the  Reigns 

of  David  and  Solomon,  Kings  of  Israel.  Gard- 

ner (Calia  E.) 

12° 

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Evidence  of  the  Christian  Religion,  Derived  from 

the  Literal  Fulfillment  of  Prophecy.  Keith 

(Alex.)  12°   $1  50 

Evidences  of  Christianity.    Barnes  (A.)  12°     1  75 

Evidences  of  Christianity,  The.  Paley  (Wm.)  18°  75 
Evidences  of  Christianity.  Whately  (Archbishop).  18°  30 
Evidences  of  Revealed  Religion.  Thomson  (E.)  12°  1  25 
Every-day  Religion.    Sermons.    Talmage  (T.  De 

Witt.)  12°     2  00 

Everlasting  Righteousness,  The.  Bonar  (Horatius).  16°  1  25 
^Evenings  at  Home.    Aikin  (John)  and  Barbauld 

(Mrs.  A.  L.)    Illust.  16°     1  00 

Evenings  at  the  Microscope ;  or,  Researches  among 

the  Minuter  Organs  and  Forms  of  Animal  Life. 

Gosse  (P.  H.)  12°     1  50 

Evenings  with  the  Sacred  Poets.  Talks  about  Sing- 
ers and  their  Songs.  Saunders  (F.)  12°  1  75 
Evolution,  The  Doctrine  of:  Its  Data,  Principles, 

Speculations,  and  its  Theistic  Bearings.  Win- 

chell  (Alex.)  12°     1  00 

Excellent  "Woman,  The,  as  Described  in  the  Book 

of  Proverbs.    With  an  Introduction  by  Wm. 

B.  Sprague.    Illust.  16°     1  50 

Excursions  in  Field  and  Forest.  Emerson  (R.  W.)  16°  1  50 
Exeter  Hall  Lectures :  Delivered  before  the  Young 

Men's  Christian  Association,  London.  20  vols.  12°  20  00 
^Exiles  in  Babylon;   or,  The  Children  of  Light. 

A.  L.  O.  E.    Illust.  16°     1  00 

Exposition  of  the  Epistle  of  St.  Paul  to  the  Colos- 

sians.    Daille  (Jean).  8°     2  50 

Exposition  of  the  Epistle  of  St.  Paul  to  the  Philip- 

pians.    Daille  (Jean).  8°     2  00 

Exposition  of  the  Epistle  to  the  Ephesians.    In  a 

Series  of  Discourses.    Lathrop  (Joseph).  8°     2  75 

*Eyes  and  Ears;  or,  How  I  See  and  Hear.    Illust.    16°     1  25 

♦Fabrics.     Inculcates  the  Lesson  of  Loving  and 

Living  for  others.    Illust.  16°  150 

Facts  about  Wives  and  Mothers.    Donkersley  (R.)  12°  1  00 

Fairbairn  on  Prophecy.  8°  2  50 

*Fairy-land  of  Science,  The.  Buckley  (A.  B.)  Illust.  12°  1  50 

Faith  and  Character.    Vincent  (M.  R.)  12°  1  50 

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Faith  :  A  Poem.    Leavitt  (J.  M.) 

12° 

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*Faith  Gartney's  Girlhood.   Whitney  (Mrs.  A.  D.  T.)  12° 

1  £A 

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16° 

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Faithful  to  the  End.    The  Story  of  Emile  Cook  s 

Life.    Houghton  (Louise  S.) 

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Famous  American  Indians.    Historical  Series  for 

Young  People.    Eggleston  (Edward)  and  Oth- 

ers.   Ulust.    5  vols. 

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Tecumseh  and  the  Shawnee  Prophet. 

Red  Eagle  and  the  Wars  with  the  Creek  Indians. 

Pocahontas  and  Powhatan. 

Brandt  and  Red  Jacket. 

Montezuma. 

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8° 

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Fall  of  Man  :  and  Other  Sermons.    Farrar  (F.  W.)  12° 

1  DU 

Fall  of  the  Stuarts,  The :  and  Western  Europe  from 

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(Ahby  Sage). 

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Famous  Americans  of  Recent  Times.  Biographical 

Sketches  of  Henry  Clay,  Daniel  Webster,  John 

C.  Calhoun,  John  Randolph,  Stephen  Girard, 

and  Many  Others. 

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Julia  A.) 

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*Fan's  Brother ;  or,  An  Old  Head  on  Young  Shoul- 

ders.   Marshall  (Beatrice).  Illust. 

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etc. 

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vinell  (Uncle). 

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lis J.)    Illust.  16°   $1  25 
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Family,  and  what  they  did  to  Welcome  their 
Father  Home.    Illust.  16°  85 

•Fault-finding,  and  Madeline  HascalFs  Letter.  Gard- 
ner (Mrs.  H.  C.)  16°     1  00 
Favorite  Poems.    A  Choice  Selection  from  English 

and  American  Authors.    Red-line.    Illust.       16°     1  25 
Fellowship.  Letters  Addressed  to  My  Sister  Mourn- 
ers.   Farrar  (F.  W.)  8°     1  00 
Female  Biography,  Gems  of.    Smith  (D.)               18°  65 
•Fern  Glen;  or,  Lilian's  Prayer.    Holt  (M.  H.) 

Illust.  16°     1  25 

Fernside  Library,  The.    Illust.    6  vols  .  7  50 

Aim  Ash ;  or,  Kindness  Rewarded. 
Anne  Dalton ;  or,  How  to  be  Useful. 
The  Convict's  Sons ;  and,  The  Two  Farmers. 
Don't  Say  So;  or,  You  May  be  Mistaken. 
The  Errand-boy ;  or,  Your  Time  is  Your  Employer's. 
The  Two  Firesides ;  or,  The  Mechanic  and  the  Tradesman. 

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Fifty  Years  a  Presiding  Elder.  Cartwright  (Peter).  12°  1  25 
•Fifty  Years  with  the  Sabbath-school.  Ballard 

(A.  C.)  12°     1  25 

•Fighting  the  Enemy.    Miller  (Emily  Huntington). 

Illust.  16°     1  00 

Finette,  the  Norman  Maiden,  and  Her  English 

Friends.    Ropes  (Mary  E.)    Illust.  16°     1  00 

Finley,  Rev.  J.  B.    Autobiography  of  Rev.  J.  B. 

Finley.  12°     1  75 

•Fireside  Reading.    Clark  (D.  W.)    5  vols.  16°     5  00 

Traits  and  Anecdotes  of  Birds  and  Fishes. 
Traits  and  Anecdotes  of 'Animals. 
Historical  Sketches. 
Travels  and  Adventures. 
True  Tales  for  the  Spare  Hour. 

Fireside  Travels.  Lowell  (J.  R.)  Household  Edi- 
tion. 12°     2  00 

First  Principles  of  Household  Management  and 

Cookery.   Parloa  (Maria).  16°  75 


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*Fisher-boy,  The ;  or,  Michael  Penguyne.  Glimpses 
of  Fisher  Life  on  the  Cornish  Coast.  Kingston 


(W.  H.  G.)  Illust. 

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Five  Gateways  of  Knowledge,  The.    Wilson  (Geo.)  16° 

7K 

♦Five  Little  Peppers,  and  How  They  Grew.  Sidney 

{ iviargare  t ) .  niubi. 

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ID 

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♦Flavia  \  or,  Loyal  to  the  End.  A  Tale  of  the  Church 

in  the  Second  Century.  Leslie  (Emma).  Illust. 

12° 

1  9^ 

*\rled.a  and.  the  Voice.    Witn  Utner  fetones.  -Latn- 

hury  (Mary  A.  [Aunt  May].)  Illust. 

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Fletcher,  Beauties  of.    Being  Extracts  from  his 

Checks  to  Antinomianism.    Spicer  (T.) 

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Fletcher,  John,  Life  of.    Benson  (Joseph). 

12° 

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12° 

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Fletcher,  Eev.  J.,  Works  of.    4  vols.  Sheep. 

8° 

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Fletcher's  Address  to  Seekers  of  Salvation. 

18° 

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Fletcher's  Checks  to  Antinomianism.   2  vols. 

8° 

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Fletcher's  Letters. 

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Prize  Stories.  Illust. 

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Flowers  of  the  Garden  and  Parlor.    Rand  (Ed- 

ward S.) 

8° 

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♦Flower  of  the  Family,  The.    A  Book  for  Girls. 

Prentiss  (Mrs.  E.) 

16° 

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Food  and  Nutrition,  Philosophy  of.    Sidney  (E.) 

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12° 

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ham Lincoln.    Mudge  (Z.  A.)  Illust. 

16° 

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12° 

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Forms  of  Water,  The.    In  Clouds  and  Rivers,  Ice 

and  Glaciers.    Tyndall  (John).  Illust. 

12° 

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Foundations ;  or,  Castles  in  the  Air.  Porter  (Rose).  16° 

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Foundations  of  Christianity,  The.     Gibson  (J. 

Monro).  16°   $1  00 

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Africa.    Illust.  16°     1  50 

*Four  Feet,  Wings    and  Fins.  Anderson-Maskel 

(Mrs.  A.  E.)  Illust.  4°     1  75 

*Four  Girls  at  Chautauqua.  Girl  Life  and  Charac- 
ter Portrayed  with  Rare  Power.  Alden  (Mrs. 
G.  R.  [Pansy].)    Illust.  12°     1  50 

Four  Happy  Days,  The.    Havergal  (Miss  F.  R.)      12°  40 

Four  Months  in  a  Sneak-box.  A  Boat  Voyage  of 
Twenty-six  Hundred  Miles  down  the  Ohio 
and  Mississippi  Rivers,  and  along  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico.    Bishop  (Nathaniel  H.)    Illust.  8°     2  50 

Four  Years  Among  Spanish  Americans.  Hassau- 

rek  (F.)  12°     1  75 

Forty  Years  in  the  Turkish  Empire.    Memoirs  of 

Rev.  William  Goodell,  D.  D.  Prime  (E.  D.  G.)  8°     2  50 

Fragments,  Religious  and  Theological.  A  Collec- 
tion of  Papers  Relating  to  Various  Points  of 
Christian  Life  and  Doctrine.    Curry  (Daniel).  12°     1  50 

Francis  of  Assisi.    Oliphant  (Mrs.)  12°     1  75 

*Frank  Harley,  Little.    Paper  cover.  12°  30 

♦Fraulein  Mina;  or,  Life  in  an  American  German 

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Hartz  Boys,  The.    The  Scene  is  laid  in  Germany, 

and  shows  that  "  as  we  sow,  so  shall  we  reap." 

Hoffman  (Franz ).  Illust 

16° 

1  25 

Haven,  Gilbert.    A  Monograph.    Wentworth  (E.) 

With  Portrait.  Paper. 

123 

25 

Health  Primers.  A  Series  of  Hand-books  on  Per- 
sonal and  Public  Hygiene.  Edited  by  Eminent 
Medical  and  Scientific  Men  of  London.  8  vols.  16°  e40 


Exercise  and  Training. 

Alcohol:  Its  Use  and  Abuse. 

The  House  and  its  Surroundings. 

Premature  Death :  Its  Promotion  and  Prevention. 

Personal  Appearance  in  Health  and  Disease. 

Baths  and  Bathing. 

The  Skin  and  its  Troubles. 

The  Heart  and  its  Functions. 


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Heart  of  Africa,  The  ;  or,  Three  Years'  Travels  and 


Adventures  in  the  Unexplored  Regions  of  the 
Center  of  Africa  from  1867  to  1871.  Schwein- 
furth  (George).  Translated  by  Ellen  E.  Frewer. 


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Heart  and  Church  Division,  Causes  and  Cure  of. 

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nampd  "  Hpart's  Content  "  Batps  CClara  Dotv) 

4° 

1  50 

Heat  as  a  Mode  of  Motion.     Tyndall  (John). 

Illust. 

12° 

2  00 

Hpavpn  Thp  Exnansp  of     Essavs  on  the  Wonders 

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*Hebrew  Heroes.    A  Story  Founded  on  Jewish 

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*Helena's  Cloud  with  the  Silver  Lining.    By  the 

Author  of  "How  Marjorie  Watched,"  etc. 

7o 

*Helena's  Household.  A  Story  of  Rome  in  the  First 

Century. 

12° 

i  cn 

1  o(J 

Hell,  The  New  Testament  Idea  of.    Merrill  (S.  M.) 

16° 

1  00 

X  \J\J 

Helm,  Cross,  and  Sword.    Lorraine  (A.  M.) 

12° 

1  50 

*Help  for  Sunday-school  Concerts.    A  Choice  Selec- 

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16° 

1  00 

*Helpful  Thoughts  for  Young  Men.  Woolsey  (T.  D.)  12° 

1  25 

*Hendricks  the  Hunter.     A  Tale   of  Zululand. 

Kingston  (W.  H.  G.)  Illust. 

12° 

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Henry  VIII  and  His  Six  Wives,  Memoirs  of.  Her- 

bert (Henry  W.) 

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*Henry  and  Bessie;  or,  What  they  Did  in  the 

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Herbert  Spencer,  Philosophy  of.  Being  an  Exam- 
ination of  the  First  Principles  of  his  System. 
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Heredity.    Cook  (Jos.)  12°     1  50 

Heresy  and  Christian  Doctrine.  De  Pressense  (E.)  1  50 

Hermits,  The.    Kingsley  (Charles).  12°     1  75 

Heroes  of  Bohemia:   Huss,  Jerome,  and  Zisca. 

Mears  (John  W.)  1G°     1  25 

Heroes  of  Christian  History.    A  Series  of  Popular 

Biographies.  12°      e  75 

William  Wilberforce.   Stoughton  (John). 
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William  Carey.    Culross  (James). 
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Richard  Baxter.   Boyle  (G.  D.) 
John  Wycliffe.   Fleming  (James). 

Heroes  of  the  Cross,  The.  Biographies  of  Saints, 
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(W.  H.  D.)  12°     2  25 

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(Charles).  12°  175 

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Vasco  da  Gama.   His  Voyages  and  Adventures. 
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*Heroines  of  History.    Owen  (Mrs.  O.  F.)  12°     1  00 

^Heroine  of  the  White  Nile;  or,  What  a  Woman 

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Travels  and  Experience  of  Miss  Alexina  Tinne. 

Wells  (William).    Illust.  12°  8-5 

♦Heroism  of  Christian  Women  of  Our  Own  Times. 

Darton  (J.  M.)  12°     1  50 

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♦Hidden  Treasure.    The  Treasure  of  a  Generous, 

Loving  Heart.    Illust.  16°     1  25 

♦Hidden  Treasure  ;  or,  The  Secret  of  Success  in  Life. 

Babcock  (Sarah  A.)  16°  85 


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♦High  Days  and  Holidays  in  Old  England  and  New 

England.    Illust.    4  vols.    In  a  box.  16°   $2  50 

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Higher  Christian  Life,  The.  Boardman  (W.  E.)  16°  1  50 
♦Hill  Farm.    Honesty  and  Faithfulness  Rewarded. 

Temple  (Crona).    Illust.  16°  60 

Hints  for  Home  Reading.  A  Series  of  Chapters  on 
Books  and  their  Use.  Abbott  (Lyman),  and 
Others.    Cloth,  $1.    Boards.  8°  75 

Hints  to  Self- Educated  Ministers.  Including  Local 
Preachers,  Exhorters,  and  Other  Christians, 
whose  Duty  it  is  to  Speak  More  or  Less  in 


Public.    Porter  (James). 

12° 

1 

25 

Historical  Confirmation  of  Scripture.    Blatch  (W.) 

18° 

30 

Historical  Evidences  of  the  Truth  of  the  Bible. 

Rawlinson  (G.) 

12° 

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75 

Historical  Illustrations  of  the  Old  Testament.  Raw- 

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Historical  Sketch  of  the  Protestant  Church  of 

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30 

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16° 

1 

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♦Historical  Tales  for  Young  American  Protestants. 

16° 

75 

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12° 

1 

50 

History  of  the  Jews,  from  the  Earliest  Period  to 

Present  Times.    Milman  (H.  H.)    Maps  and 

Illust.    3  vols. 

18° 

2 

25 

History,  Ancient,  A  Manual  of.   Thalheimer  (M.  E. 

)  8° 

nl 

60 

History  and  Critical  Essays.    De  Quincey.    2  vols. 

12° 

3 

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16° 

1 

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History,  Modern,  A  Manual  of.  Thalheimer  (M.  E.) 

8° 

nl 

60 

History  of  American  Bible  Society,  from  its  Organi- 

zation in  1816  to  the  Present  Time.  Strick- 

land (W.  P.) 

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18° 

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History  of  Christianity.  Abbott  (John  S.  C.)  Illust. 

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History  of  the  Consulate  and  Empire  of  France 
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bert.   Illust.   5  vols.  8°    12  50 

History  of  the  Crusades,  The.    Michaud  (Joseph 

Francois).    3  vols.  8°     3  75 

History  of  the  Council  of  Trent.  From  the  French 
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History  of  England  from  the  Accession  of  James 

IL    Macaulay  (T.  B.)    5  vols.  12°     5  00 

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History  of  France  from  the  Earliest  Times  to  1848. 

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History  of  Greece,  A  General,  from  the  Earliest 

Period  to  the  Death  of  Alexander  the  Great. 

With  a  Sketch  of  the  Subsequent  History  to . 

the  Present  Time.    Cox  (G.  W.)  12°   $1  50 

History  of  the  Huguenots.    Marsh  (Mrs.)  16°     1  25 

•History  of  India.  Feudge  (Fanny  Roper).  Illust.  12°  1  50 
History  of  the  Jewish  Church.    Stanley  (Dean). 

3  vols.  8°     7  50 

Vol.  L  Abraham  to  Samuel. 

Vol.  2.  Samuel  to  the  Captivity. 

Vol.  3.  From  the  Captivity  to  the  Christian  Era. 

♦History  of  the  Jewish  Nation,  A.  From  the  Earli- 
est Times  to  the  Present  Day.  Palmer  (E.  F.) 
Illust.  16°    1  25 

History  of  Philosophy,  Schwegler's.  Translated 

from  the  Original  German  by  J.  H.  Seelye.       12°     2  00 

History  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 

States  of  America.    Gillett  (E.  H.)    2  vols.      12°     5  00 

History  Primers.    Edited  by  J.  R.  Green.   6  vols.   18°    en  45 

Greece.   Fyffe  (C.  A.) 
Rome.   Creighton  (M.) 
Geography.   Grove  (George). 
Europe.   Freeman  (E.  A.)  ' 
Old  Greek  Life.    MahafFy  (J.  P.) 
Roman  Antiquities.   Wilkins  (A.  S.) 

History  of  the  Reformation.    D'Aubigne.                8°  2  50 
History  of  the  Great  Reformation.    Carter  (T.)       12°  1  25 
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History  of  the  Romans.  Merivale  (Charles).  4  vols.  12°  7  00 
♦History  of  Spain.  Harrison  (James  Albert).  Illust.  12°  1  50 
*  History  of  Switzerland.    Slidell-Mackenzie  (Har- 
riet D.)    Illust.                                           12°  1  50 
History  of  the  United  Netherlands  from  the  Death 
of  William  the  Silent  to  the  Twelve  Years' 
Truce.    Motley  (J.  L.)    4  vols.                        8°  8  00 
♦History  of  the  United  States,  Young  Folks'.  Hig- 

ginson  (T.  W.)    Illust.                                   16°  1  50 

History  of  the  United  States.  Bancroft.  6  vols.  12°  e2  50 
History  of  the  United  States.    Ridpath  (John 

Clark).                                                        8°  3  00 

♦History  of  the  World.    Barth  (C.)                        12°  85 

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nonness  •  tne  -tsirtnngnt  of  all  (aod  s  Children. 

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Stephen  and  His  Tempter. 

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Nat  and  His  Chum ;  or,  The  Friendly  Rivals. 

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Holy  Ground,  On.    Travels  in  Palestine.  Hodder 

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*Home  Sunshine  ;  or,  Bear  and  Forbear.  Illust. 

1  A° 
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to 

Homespun ;  or,  Five  and  Twenty  Years  Ago. 

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1  A0 
10 

1  OU 

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1  A° 
10 

Art 
OU 

Homes  without  Hands ;  or,  A  Description  of  the 

Habitation  of  Animals,  Classed  According  to 

their  Principles  of  Construction.    Wood  (J.  C.) 

Illust. 

8° 

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in  one. 

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Q  rtrt 
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Homiletical  Index.    Hand-book  of  lexts,  Ihemes, 

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True  Manliness.           Blind  Nellie's  Boy. 

*Honor,  Six  Steps  to.    Great  Truths  Illustrated. 

Andrews  (H.  P.) 

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8° 

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16° 

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Illust. 

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Madeline). 

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Household  Book  of  Poetry.    Dana  (Charles  A.) 


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10 

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"  Household  Puzzles.   A  Story  of  Home-life.  Alden 

/Mra  ri  t>  rPonovi  i  nine* 

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*How  a  Farthing  Made  a  Fortune ;  or,  Honesty  is 

the  Best  Policy.    Bo  wen  (C.  E.) 

18° 

50 

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Eggleston  (George  Cary).  Board. 

16° 

50 

How  to  Get  Strong  and  How  to  Stay  so.  Blaikie 

(William).  Illust. 

16° 

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1  Q° 

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~How  iMarjorie  Watched.  Illust. 

ID 

70 

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^How  to  Conduct  Prayer  -  meetings.  Thompson 

^ijewis  KJ.) 

1Z 

1 

Jo 

How  Two  Girls  Tried  Farming.    A  Piquant  Nar- 

rative of  an  Actual  Experience.  Shepherd 

(Dorothea  Alice). 

lo 

1 

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How  the  World  was  Peopled.    Ethnological  Lec- 

tures.   Fontaine  (Edward). 

1Z 

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iiugucnoib,  ine.    omnes  (o.j 

R° 
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Huguenots,  The,  after  the  Revocation.    Smiles  (S.) 

ft0 

9 

Human  Race,  The  '.  And  Other  Sermons.  Preached 

it  i;n  ol  ton  Vi  i  m    Ovfrifi'l    in/l       ri  rrl  i  t  ATI  T?a1^ott- 
cL  L  v  11 L  J  I  L  11 1 1  tt  111 ,   UAlUIUj  cUlvl  -L)I  1    1 1  LU11 .      1VUUC1  t 

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^Hunting  Adventures  on  Land  and  Sea  ;  The  Young 

Nimrods  in  North  America.   A  Book  for  Boys. 

Knox  (Thomas  W.)  Illust. 

8° 

2 

50 

^Huntingdon,  Lady,  Portrayed.     Mudge  (Z.  A.) 

Illust. 

16° 

1 

00 

Hymns  of  the  Ages.    First,  Second,  and  Third 

Series.    Each  in  1  vol. 

12° 

el 

50 

CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


333 


Hymns  of  Frederick  William  Faber.  With  a  Sketch 


OI   XllS   IvlH'.  11IUM. 

XU 

91 

Hypatia.   Kingsley  (Charles). 

1  9° 

1  71 

X  10 

TIiTnorinn       T  nnfy fill  1         f  T  T    \v  i 
XI  y  L>t;I  U.'Il.      J_AjllglcllU  W   ^XX.    TV  .y 

12° 

X.£d 

1  If) 

Idle  Word,  The.  Short  Religious  Essays  upon  the 

Gift  of  Speech.    Goulburn  (E.  M.) 

12° 

to 

I  Go  A-Fishing.    Prime  (Wm.  C.) 

8° 

9  1A 

Illustrations  of  Scripture :   Suggested  by  a  Trip 

through  the  Holy  Land.  Hackett  (H.  B.)  Illust.  12° 

1  Ifl 

Illustrated  Gatherings.    Bowes  (G.  S.) 

1  71 

x  to 

Second  Series. 

1  71 
1  to 

imitation  ol  Onrist.    lvempis  (1  nomas  a). 

1  CO 

lo 

1  no 

Immortality  of  the  Soul,  and  the  Final  Condition 

of  the  Wicked  Carefully  Considered.  Landis 

^xtoDert  vv .) 

1  9° 

x  o\j 

Immortality,  lne  .Bible  Uoctrine  or.  Mattison  {ti.) 

Paper  cover. 

1  90 

91 
ZO 

Improvement  of  Society  by  the  General  Diffusion 

of  Knowledge.    Dick  (Thomas). 

1  QO 

AK 

In  Prospect  of  Sunday.    A  Collection  of  Analyses, 

Arguments,  Applications,  Counsels,  Cautions, 

etc.,  for  Use  of  Preachers  and  Sunday-school 

leacners.    r>owes  o.) 

1  9 
LZ 

1  10 
1  OU 

Insect  Lives ;  or,  Born  in  Prison.  Ballard  (Julia  P.) 

Illust. 

1  oo 
12 

1  fin 

Insects  Abroad.    Being  a  Popular  Account  of  For- 

eign Insects,  i  their   Structure,    Habits,  and 

Transformation.    Wood  (J.  G.) 

8° 

4  UU 

Inquirer  and  New  Convert.    Young  (Robert.)  In 

1  vol. 

18° 

OK 

lo 

Inside  the  Gates.    McCarty  (J.  Hendrickson). 

16° 

1  AA 
1  W 

Interior  Life.    Upham  (T.  C.) 

12° 

1  1A 
1  OU 

Intermediate  World,  The.    Townsend  (L.  T.) 

16° 

iO 

interpreter's  House,  The ;  or,  Sermons  to  Children. 

Newton  (W.  W.)  Illust. 

16° 

1  25 

Introduction  to  the  Gospel  Records.    Nast  (Wm.) 

12° 

1  10 

Introduction  to  the  Study  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

Harman  (Henry  M.) 

8° 

4  00 

In  the  Arctic  Seas.    A  Narrative  of  the  Discovery 

of  the  Fate  of  Sir  John  Franklin  and  His 

Companions.    McClintock  (R.  N.)  Illust. 

12° 

1  25 

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In  the  Fields.  Poems  which  have  for  their  Subjects 
the  Objects  and  Thoughts  of  the  Grassy  Fields. 
Hathaway  (Miss  M.  E.  N.)  1G°   $1  25 

In  the  Mist.    Porter  (Rose).  16°     1  25 

In  the  Days  of  Thy  Youth.    Farrar  (F.  W.)  12°     2  00 

Indian  and  White  Man,  The ;  or,  The  Indian  in 
Self-defense.  Right -Hand  Thunder  (Indian 
Chief.)    Edited  by  D.  W.  Risher.  12°     1  50 

Indian  Biography.    Thatcher.    2  vols.  18°     1  50 

Infidelity,  Best  Method  of  Counteracting.  Christ- 

lieb  (Theo.)  12°     1  75 

Infant  Baptism  Briefly  Considered.    Doane  (N.)      16°  65 

Infant  Church  Membership.    Gregg  (S.)  16°  80 

*Infant  Sunday-school.  Knox  (Mrs.  and  Rev.  C.  E.)  12°  65 
-Influence.    Illust.  16°     1  30 

Influence  of  Jesus,  The.    Bohlen  Lectures.  1879. 

Brooks  (Phillips).  16°     1  25 

*Inglises,  The ;  or,  How  the  Way  Opened.  Rober- 

son  (Margaret  M.)  12°     1  50 

*Inventor,  Trials  of  an ;  or,  Life  and  Discoveries  of 

Charles  Goodyear.    Peirce  (B.  K.)  16°  100 

♦Iron  Boot,  The :  And  Other  Stories.  IS0  40 

Irving's  Belles-lettres  Works.  Including  Alhambra, 
Bracebridge  Hall,  Crayon  Miscellany,  Gold- 
smith, Knickerbocker,  Sketch-book,  Tales  of  a 
Traveler,  Wolfert's  Roost.    8  vols.  16°    12  00 

*Irving,  Washington.    Memoir  of:  With  Selections 

from  his  Works  and  Criticisms.  Adams  (Chas.)  16°     1  00 

Isaac,  Jacob,  and  Joseph.    [Expository  Reading.] 

Dods  (Marcus).  10°     1  25 

Island  Life  ;  or,  The  Phenomena  of  Insular  Faunas 
and  Floras,  with  their  Causes.  Including  an 
entire  Revision  of  the  Problem  of  Geological 
Climates.  AVallace  (Alfred  Russel).  Illust. 
and  Maps.  8°     4  00 

Island  of  Fire,  The ;  or,  A  Thousand  Years  of  the 
Old  Northmen's  Home,  874-1874.  Headley 
(P.  C.)    Illust.  12°     1  50 

Ismailia :  A  Narrative  of  the  Expedition  to  Central 
Africa  for  the  Suppression  of  the  Slave-trade, 
Organized  by  Ismail,  Khedive  of  Egypt.  Baker 
(Samuel  White).    Maps  and  Illust.  8a     5  00 


ooo 

Israel  in  Egypt ;  orr  Egypt  s  Place  among  the  An- 

cient Monarchies.    Clark  (Edward  L.) 

8° 

9la  on 

*Israel  Putnam,  Life  of,  Major-general  in  the  Conti- 

nental Army.  Tarbox  (I.  N.)  Maps  and  lllust.  12° 

1  OK 
1  ZO 

Israelites,    Ancient,   Manners  of   the.  Fleury 

(^lauuej. 

1  OO 

lo 

KK 
OO 

Isoult  Barry  of  Wynscote,  Her  Diurnal  Book.  A 

Tale  of  Tudor  Times.    Holt  (Emily  S.) 

16° 

1  K(\ 
1  OU 

Italy,  Florence,  and  Venice.  Taine. 

8° 

O  Kf\ 

Z  oU 

Itinerancy,  Life  in  the.    Davis  (L.  D.) 

1 oo 

1  OK 
1  Zo 

Itinerant,  Recollections  of  an.    Smith  (II.) 

1  A° 
10 

QK 
OO 

*Itinerant  Side  \  or,  Pictures  of  Life  in  the  Itiner- 

ancy.   Babcock  (Sarah  A.)  Illustrated. 

lo 

QK 
OD 

T^"i  t"i^i*o  n  i  ^  cs    Wife*  *      T  X  /  »  v     (  *\  n  n  1  i  ^i  no  f  iV^ti  d      Ckir*  T^o4t\ti 

mnerani  s  >v  lie .  xier  v^u<inncaiions,  etc.  T^axon 

{ti.  m.) 

1  Q° 
lo 

25 

J.V  j  X  clllllltl  V Gil  ,   yjl  ,    V¥  UlIltlllllUOLl  111  VvIlrlbL. 

1  9° 

1  zo 

*  J  ack  the  Conqueror ;  or,  Difficulties  Overcome. 

liowen  must. 

lo 

TK 
40 

*Jack  Masters  ;  or,  the  Berry-pickers.  Mills  (Lucy A.) 

lllust. 

lo 

1  OK 
1  ZO 

*Jack  and  Ros3r.    A  True  Story.    Forrest  (Neil). 

10 

1  OO 

*  Jacques  Bonneval,  A  Tale  of  the  Hugenots.  Man- 

ning (Anna). 

lb 

/  o 

Janet's  Love  and  Service.    Robertson  (M.  M.) 

1  oo 
1Z 

1  to 

*'Jessie  in  Switzerland.  lllust. 

lo 

IK 
10 

*' Jesse  Wells  ;  or,  How  to  Save  the  Lost.  Alden 

^Mrs.  vx.  lv.  Li  ansyj.)  lllust. 

lo 

7K 
i  0 

J esus  Christ :  His  Times,  Life,  and  Work.  Abridged. 

Pressense  (E.  De). 

1J 

1  OK 
1  ZO 

Jesus  of  Nazareth.  His  Life  and  Teachings,  Founded 

on  the  Four  Gospels,  and  Illustrated  by  Refer- 

ence  to  the  Manners,  Customs,  Religious  Beliefs, 

and  Political  Institutions  of  His  Times.  Ab- 

bott (Lyman).  lllust. 

8° 

O  CA 

o  50 

Jeweled  Ministry ;  or,  Life  of  Rev.  Thomas  Collins. 

Coley  (Samuel). 

12° 

1  25 

Jewish  Church.    Stanley.  (A.  P.)    2  vols. 

8° 

o  00 

*Joan  the  Maid,  Deliverer  of  France  and  England. 

A  Story  of  the  Fifteenth  Century.    Done  into 

Modern  English  by  the   Author    of  "The 

Sehonburg-Cotta  Family." 

12° 

1  00 

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*  Joanna;  or,  Learning  to  Follow  Jesus.  Haven 

(Marion).  16o   $1  qq 

*Joe  Witless.    Illust.  16°     \  qq 

*John  Bremm.    His  Frison  Bars.    A  Temperance 

Story.    Hopkins  (A.  A.)  16°     1  25 

*  Joint  Carey ;  or,  What  is  a  Christian  ?  A.  L.  0.  E. 

Illust.  18°  75 

John  Lothrop  Motley.    A  Memoir.    With  Fine 

Steel  Portrait.  \q°     i  50 

*John  Richmond;  or,  A  Sister's  Love.    Taylor  (T.) 

Illust.  16o  g5 

*John  Winthrop  and  the  Great  Colony  ;  or,  Sketches 
of  the  Settlement  of  Boston  and  of  the  More 
Prominent  Persons  Connected  with  the  Massa- 
chusetts Colony.    True  (Charles  K.)    Illust.     16°  85 

*Johnny  Jones;  or,  The  Bad  Boy.    Homespun  (So- 
phia).   Illust.  16°     l  00 

♦Johnnie,  the  Railroad  Boy.    Poole  (Mrs.  L.  E.) 

Illust.  16°     1  00 

♦Johnny's  Vacations,  and  Other  Stories.  Hatha- 
way (Mary  E.  N.)  Illust.  16°  1  25 
Johnson's  Works,  Dr.  Samuel.  The  Complete 
Works  of  Samuel  Johnson,  LL.  D.  With  an 
Essay  on  his  Life  and  Genius.  Murphy 
(Arthur).    2  vols.  8°     4  00 

*Jottings  from  Life ;  or,  Passages  from  the  Diary  of 

an  Itinerant's  Wife.    Cutler  (Helen  R.)  12°  85 

Journal  of  the  Discovery  of  the  Source  of  the  Nile. 

Speke  (John  H.)    Maps  and  Illust.  8°     4  00 

Journal  of  John  Woolman,  The.    Introduction  by 

John  G.  Whittier.  16°     1  50 

Journey  in  Brazil,  A.    Agassiz  (Prof,  and  Mrs.) 

Illust.  8°     5  00 

•*Judah's  Lion.    Elizabeth  (Charlotte).  16°  90 

^Judge's  Sons,  The.  Showing  the  Success  that  fol- 
lows Pure  and  High  Aims.  Kendall  (Mrs.  E. 
D.)    Illust.  16°     1  50 

•Julia  Ried.    Alden  (Mrs.  G.  R.  [Pansy].)    Illust.    12°     1  50 
Justification,  A  Treatise  on.    Davies  (B.  N.)  16°     1  00 

Justification,  Hare  on.  18°  50 

Juventus  Mundi.    Gods  and  Men  of  the  Heroic 

Age.  *  Gladstone  (W.  E.)  8°     1  50 


CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


337 


•Kangaroo  Hunters.    Bowman  (Anna).   Illust.      1G°  $1  00 
♦Katharine's  Experience.    Showing  the  Transform- 
ing Power- of  Grace.    Biscoe  (Ellen  L.)  Illust.  16°  1  50 
•Katie  Johnstone  Library.    Illust.    5  vols.               16°  4  75 

Katie  Johnstone's  Cross.  One  of  the  Billingses. 

The  Grocer's  Boy.  Emily  Milman. 

Cottagers  of  Glcncarran. 

Kathrina :  Her  Life  and  Mine.  Holland  (J.  G.)  12°  1  50 
Kavanagh.     A   Daguerreotype  of  New  England 

Life.    Longfellow  (H.  W.)  16°     1  50 

•Kenneth  and  Hugh ;  or,  Self-mastery.  1G°     1  25 

Kept  for  the  Master's  Use.    Havergal  (F.  R.)         18°  25 
King  and  Commonwealth.    A  History  of  Charles 
I  and  the  Great  Rebellion.    Cordery  (B.  Mer- 
iton)  and  Phillpotts  (J.  S.)  12°     1  75 

•King  of  Day.    Urmy  (W.  S.)    One  illust.  1G°  75 

•King's  Daughter,  A.  With  Other  Stories  from  Real 

Life.    Gardner  (Mrs.  H.  C.)    One  illust.  16°  100 

tKing's  Daughter,  The.    Alden  (Mrs.  G.  R.  [Pansy].) 

Illust.  13°     1  50 

*King  in  His  Beauty,  The.    Newton  (Richard).         10°     1  25 
•Kings,  Queens,  and  Barbarians ;  or,  Seven  Historic 
Ages.   Familiar  Talks  about  History  for  Young 
Folks.    Gilman  (Arthur).    Illust.  1G°     1  00 

•Kitty  Kent's  Troubles.  Eastman  (Julia  A.)  Illust.  1G°  1  50 
Kitto's  Bible  Illustrations.    Kitto  (John).    8  vols.  7  00 

Knickerbocker.    Irving  (Washington).  16°     1  25 

Knights  and  their  Days.    Doran.  8°     1  75 

Knights  and  Sea-kings ;  or,  The  Middle  Ages.  Ed- 
ited by  S.  F.  Smith.    Illust.  12°     1  50 
♦Knowing  and  Doing.  Paull  (Mrs.  H.  H.  B.)  Illus- 
trated. 16°     1  00 

Labor.    Cook  (Joseph).  12°     1  50 

Lacon ;  or,  Many  Tilings  in  Few  Words.  Colton 

(C.  C.)  16°     1  25 

Ladies'  and  Gentlemen's  Complete  Etiquette.  Duf- 

fey  (Mrs.  E.  B.)  16°     1  50 

Ladies  of  the  Covenant.  Memoirs  of  Distinguished 

Scottish  Female  Characters.  .Anderson  (Jas.)  12°  1  50 
Lake  Regions  of  Central  Africa,  The.    A  Picture 

of  Explorations.    Burton  (Richard  F.)  8°     3  50 

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Lake  Region  in  1863,  Glimpses  of  Onr.  Gardner 

(Mrs.  H.  C.)  16°   $1  25 

'Lame  Bessie ;  or,  Simple  Faith.  16°     1  25 

♦Lances  of  Lynwood,  The.    Young  (M.  C.)    Illust   12°     1  25 

Land  and  the  Book,  The.    .Southern  Palestine  and 

Jerusalem.    Thompson  (Wm.  M.)  8°     7  50 

Land  and  Its  Story,  The ;  or,  The  Sacred  Historical 
Geography  of  Palestine.  Burt  (X.  C.)  Illust. 
with  Maps,  Sketches,  Charts,  and  Engravings.    8°     3  50 

Land  of  Desolation,  The.  A  Personal  Narrative 
of  Observations  and  Adventures  in  Greenland. 
Hayes  (I.  I.)    Illust.  12°     1  75 

Land  of  Israel,  The,  According  to  the  Covenant  with 
Abraham,  with  Isaac,  and  with  Jacob.  Keith 
(Alex.)    Elust.  12°     1  50 

Land  of  Moab.  Travels  and  Discoveries  on  the 
East  Side  of  the  Dead  Sea  and  the  Jordan. 
Tristram  (H.  B.)    Illust  8°     2  50 

Land  of  Promise.    Kitto  (John).  12°     1  00 

Land  of  Shadowing  Wings ;  or,  The  Empire  of  the 

Sea.    Loomis  (H.)  12°     1  00 

Land  of  the  Midnight  Sun,  The.  Summer  and 
"Winter  Journeys  through  Sweden,  Norway, 
Lapland,  and  Northern  Finland,  Du  Chaillu 
(Paul  B.)    "With  Map  and  Illust    2  vols.  8°     7  50 

Land  of  the  Veda.  Being  Personal  Reminiscences 
of  India;  its  People,  Castes,  Thugs,  and  Fa- 
kirs; its  Religion,  Mythology,  Principal  Mon- 
uments, Palaces,  and  Mausoleums;  together 
with  Incidents  of  the  Great  Sepoy  Rebellion, 
and  its  Results  to  Christianity  and  Civilization. 
With  a  Map  of  India,  and  Forty-two  Illustra- 
tions. Also,  Statistical  Tables  of  Christian 
Missions,  and  a  Glossary  of  Indian  Terms  used 
in  this  "Work  and  in  Missionary  Correspond- 
ence.   Butler  (William).  3  50 

Land  of  the  "White  Elephant,  The.    Vincent  (F.) 

Illust.  8°     3  50 

*Lapsed,  but  not  Lost.  A  Tale  of  Carthage  and  the 
Early  Church.  By  the  Author  of  the  Schon- 
berg-Cotta  Family."  V2°  100 

*Last  Gladiatorial  Show.    Short  (John  T.)    Illust.    16°     1  00 


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Last  Witness.  Dying  Sayings  of  Christians.  Baker 

(0.  C.)  24°   $0  25 

Latin  Christianity.    Milman  (H.  H.)    8  vols.  8°   e  1  75 

*Laura  Linwood.  16°     1  25 

Law,  Ecclesiastical,  Treatise  on.    Henry  (W.  J.) 

and  Harris  (W.  L.)  8°     3  00 

Laws  Relating  to  Religious  Corporations.    A  Com- 
pilation of  the  Statutes  of  the  Several  States  of 
the  United  States  in  Relation  to  the  Incorpo- 
ration and  Maintenance  of  Religious  Societies, 
and  to  the  Disturbance  of  Religious  Meetings. 
Hunt  (Sandford).    With  an  Address  on  Laws 
affecting  Religious  Corporations  in  the  State 
of  New  York,  by  E.  L.  Fancher.    Sheep.         12°     1  25 
Law  of  Love  and  Love  as  a  Law,  The ;  or,  Chris- 
tian Ethics.    Hopkins  (Mark).  12°     1  75 
Lays  of  the  Scottish  Cavaliers.    Aytoun  (Wm.  E.)  1G°     1  00 
Lay-Preacher,  The.  Helps  for  the  Study,  Platform, 

Pulpit,  and  Desk.    Wagstaff  (F.)  12°     1  50 

♦Leaders  of  Men.    A  Book  of  Biographies.  Page 

(H.  A.)  12°     1  50 

♦Lea's  Playground.  A  Book  for  Boys.  Illust.  16°  1  00 
♦Leaves  and  Fruit.    Griffith  (M.  E.)    Illust.  16°     1  25 

Lectures  and  Addresses.    Dempster  (John).  12°     1  50 

Lectures  and  Sermons.    Punshon  (W.  M.)  12°     2  00 

Lectures  Delivered  in  America.    Kingsley  (Chas.)  12°     1  25 
Lectures  on  Preaching.    Delivered  before  the  The- 
ological Department  of  Yale  College.  Simpson 
(Matthew).  12°     1  50 

Lectures  on  Preaching.  Delivered  before  the  The- 
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*Lucy,  the  Light-bearer.    Sargent  (G.  F.)  Illust. 

16° 

1 

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Luther,  Martin,  Life  of.    Cubitt  (George). 

12° 

85 

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(Utiarles  vv.j  lllust. 

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16° 

4  00 

Life  in  Lyntonville.           Fishers  of  Derby  Haven. 

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XUi&o  V'tlllLJli.  a  Ol  mini,                vii.iu.   o   V  loit-. 

Lyra  Americana  j  or,  Verses  of  Praise  and  Faith. 

from  American  Poets. 

19° 

1  OO 

*Mabel  Livingstone  j  or,  Chnstward  Led.  lllust. 

ID 

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*Mabel  s  raitn.    A  Jrractical  otory.  lllust. 

1  0.° 

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Macaulay,  Lord.  His  Life  and  His  Writings.  Jones 

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son  [o.)  must. 

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8° 

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Mammon.    Harris  (John).  . 

lo 

40 

Man  All  Immortal ;  or,  The  Nature  and  Destination 

of  Man  as  Taught  by  Reason  and  Revelation. 

Olark  (U.  W.) 

1  00 

Man  and  Beast,  Here  and  Hereafter.  Wood  (J.  G.) 

must. 

O 

1  oU 

Man  and  the  Gospel ;  and  Our  Father's  Business. 

Guthrie  (Thomas).    In  1  vol. 

1  9° 

1  K(\ 

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William  Marsh.    By  His  Daughter. 

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Smith  (Daniel). 

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1  6o 

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-Marble  Preacher.     Clark  (Mrs.   Henry  Steele). 


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ID 

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->iari> r&  io  iiic  xrdci  v^ciust!.  j\.  v^oiiiriDuiion  10  iiie 

History  of  the  Reformation.    Hurst  (J.  F.) 

1  9° 

DO 

Mary  and  I ;  or,  Forty  Years  with  the  Sioux.  Riggs 

(otepnen  tx.) 

1  9° 

1 

OD 

Mason,  Mrs.  Mary  W.,  Life  of.    With  an  Introduc- 

tion by  Bishop  Janes. 

1 2° 

1 

25 

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in  Public  Schools.    Five  Hundred  Dollar  Prize 

Stories.  Illust. 

10° 

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Work. 

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The  Children  of  the  Great  King. 

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art  (Mrs.  Thomas).  16°.  85 

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of.    Crooks  (George  R.)  12°     1  50 

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Guizot  (M.)  12°     1  50 

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(Mrs.  H.  C.)    Illust.  16°     1  00 

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Memoir  and  Remains  of  the  Rev.  Robert  Murray 

McCheyne.    Bonar  (Andrew  A.)  12°     1  00 

Memoir  of  Col.  Charles  S.  Todd.    Griffin  (G.  W.)   12°     1  50 

Memoir  of  General  William    Francis  Bartlett. 

Palfrey  (F.  W.)  16°     1  50 

Memoirs  of  a  Huguenot  Family.    Maury  (Ann).     12°  175 

Memories  of  Fifty  Years.  Containing  Brief  Bio- 
graphical Notices  of  Distinguished  Americans, 
and  Anecdotes  of  Remarkable  Men,  etc. 
Sparks  (W.  H.)  8°     2  50 


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Relation  to  Doctrine  and  Life.  Chaplin  (Jer- 
emiah). 16°     1  50 

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MacWhorter  (Alexander).  16°     1  00 

Memorials  of  Frances  Ridley  Havergal.    By  her 

Sister.  12°     1  75 

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Clarke.    Edited  by  his  Wife.  12°     2  00 

•Men,  Women,  and  Ghosts.    Phelps  (Elizabeth  S.)  16°     1  50 

Mendelssohn  Family,  The.  (1729-1847.)  From 
Letters  and  Journals.  Hensel  (Sebastian). 
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Mental  Science,  Elements  of.    Smith  (M.)  12°     1  75 

Mental  Science.    A  Compendium  of  Psychology 

and  History  of  Philosophy.    Bain  (Alex.)         12°     1  50 

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(J.  W.)  18°  40 

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Methodism,  American,  A  Compendious  History  of. 
Abridged  from  the  Author's  History  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Stevens  (Abel). 
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Methodism,  A  Comprehensive  History  of.  Em- 
bracing Origin,  Progress,  and  Present  Spiritual, 
Educational,  Benevolent  Status  in  all  Lands. 
Porter  (James).  12°     1  75 

Methodism  and  its  Methods.    Crane  (J.  T.)  12°     1  25 

Methodism  and  the  Centennial  of  American  Inde- 
pendence ;  or,  The  Loyal  and  Liberal  Services 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  during  the 
First  Century  of  the  History  of  the  United 
States.  With  a  Brief  History  of  the  Various 
Branches  of  Methodism,  and  Full  Statistical 
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Methodism,  American.    Statistical  History  of  the 

r  irsi  v>eniury.    vjoss  ^-j 

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w  neeier  ^n.y 

19° 

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Methodism,  A  Hundred  Years  of.    Simpson  (M.) 

1  9° 

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1  9° 

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Methodism)  Compendium  of.    Porter  (James). 

1  no 

iviemoQism,  HiCciesiastiCtii  x  oiny  01.    xiuugson  \t:  .j 

1R° 
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Methodism  Forty  Years  Ago  and  Now.  Culver 

^j>eweii.j 

1  9° 

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Bennett  (W.  W.)  Illust. 

16° 

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12° 

4 

50 

Methodism,  Inside  Views  of.    Reddy  (W.) 

18° 

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Methodism  in  the  Field;  or,  Pastor  and  People. 


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Methodism,  Manual  of ;  or,  The  Doctrines,  General 

Rules,  and  Usages  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 

Church.    With  Scripture  Proofs  and  Explana- 

tions.  Hawley  (B.) 

12° 

85 

Methodism,  Women  of.    Stevens  (A.) 

12° 

1  25 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  History  of  the,  in  the 

United   States   of  America.     Stevens  (A.) 

4  vols. 

12° 

6  00 

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(N.)    4  vols. 

12° 

5  00 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Responsibilities  of  the. 

Bangs  (N.) 

18° 

50 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  the  United  States, 

Statistics  of  the.   De  Puy  (W.  H.)  Paper. 

12° 

20 

Methodist  Episcopal  Pulpit.    A  Collection  of  Orig- 

inal Sermons.    Clark  (D.  W.) 

12° 

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Methodist,  Reasons  for  Becoming  a.    Smith  (I.) 

18° 

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Methodists  Vindicated.  Letter  to  Dr.  Pusey.  Jack- 

son (T.) 

18° 

35 

Methodist?  Why  are  You  a.    Peck  (G.) 

18° 

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Methodology.    Lectures  on  Theological  Encylopae- 

dia  and  Methodology.    McClintock  (John). 

12° 

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16° 

85 

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Bain  (Alex.) 

12° 

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1  25 

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/AT     T  \ 

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12° 

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12° 

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16° 

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75 

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16° 

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10  vols. 

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Misread  Passages  of  Scripture.     Second  Series. 

Brown  (J.  Baldwin). 

12° 

85 

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m  a  Dry  Place,  lilust. 

16° 

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16° 

85 

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Dialogues.    Smith  (W.  T.) 

16° 

to 

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16° 

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Missionary  Memorials  in  West  Africa.  Moister  (W.) 

12° 

7o 

Missionary  Life  Among  the  Villages  in  India. 

Scott  (T.  J.) 

12° 

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Mission  of  the  Comforter.  Hare. 

12° 

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Mission  of  the  Spirit ;  or,  The  Office  and  Work  of 

the  Comforter  in  Human  Redemption.  Dunn 

(L.  R.) 

12° 

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Missions  and  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist 

Episcopal  Church.    Reid  (J.  M.)    Maps  and 

Illust.    2  vols. 

6  UU 

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12° 

80 

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Alden  (Mrs.  G.  R,  [Pansy].)  Illust. 

16° 

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16° 

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10° 

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12° 

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18° 

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12° 

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Modern  British  Essayists.    Containing  the  Essays 

of  Alison,  Carlyle,  Jeffrey,  Macaulay,  Mack- 

intosh, Sydney  Smith,  Talfourd,  Stephen,  and 

Wilson.    0  vols.    In  box. 

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Modern  Classics.  A  reprint,  in  new  form,  of  the 
Popular  and  Sterling  Vest-pocket  Series.  In- 
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Poems.  Longfellow. 

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Power,  Wealth.  Illusions.  Emerson. 

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Greatness,  Immortality.  Emerson. 

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Whittier. 

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Poems.  Lowell. 

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Christmas  Carol.    Dickens.     Barry  Cornwall  and 
some  of  his  Friends.  Fields. 

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vorite Poems.  Wordsworth. 

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Pierre. 

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John  Leech.  Dr.  John  Brown. 

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son. 

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12.  Elizabeth  Barrett  Browning:  an  Essay.  Stedman  (E.  C.) 

Lady  Geraldine's  Courtship.    Browning  (Mrs.)  Fa- 
vorite Poems.   Browning  (Robert). 

13.  Goethe ;  an  Essay.  Carlyle.  The  Tale ;  Favorite  Poems. 

Goethe.  s 

14.  Schiller;  an  Essay.   Carlyle.   The  Lay  of  the  Bell,  and 

Fridolin  ;  Favorite  Poems.  Schiller. 

15.  Burns;  an  Essay.    Carlyle.    Favorite  Poems.  Bums. 

Favorite  Poems.  Scott. 

16.  Byron ;  an  Essay.   Macaulay.   Favorite  Poems,  Byrort 

Favorite  Poems.  Hood. 


354 


CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


Modern  Classics.  (Continued.) 

17.  Milton ;  an  Essay.   Macaulay.   L'  Allegro  ;  II  Penseroso. 

Milton.   Elegy  in  a  Country  Chnrch-yard,  etc.  Gray. 

18.  A  Deserted  Village,  etc.   Goldsmith.   Favorite  Poems. 

Cowper.   Favorite  Poems.   Mrs.  Hemans. 

19.  Characteristics.  Carlyle.  Favorite  Poems.  Shelley.  The 

Eve  of  St.  Agnes,  etc.  Keats. 

20.  An  Essay  on  Man:  Favorite  Poems.    Pope.  Favorite 

Poems.  Moore. 

21.  The  Choice  of  Books.  Carlyle.  Essays  from  Elia.  Lamb. 

Favorite  Poems.  Southey. 

22.  Spring;  Summer;  Autumn;  Winter.  Thomson. 

23.  The  Pleasures  of  Hope;  Favorite  Poems.  Campbell. 

Pleasures  of  Memory.  Rogers. 

24.  Sonnets ;  Songs.   Shakespeare.   Favorite  Poems.  Leigh 

Hunt, 

25.  Favorite  Poems.    Herbert.    Favorite  Poems.  Collins, 

-  Dryden,  Marvell.   Favorite  Poems.  Herrick. 

26.  Lays  of  Ancient  Rome,  and  Other  Poems.  Macaulay. 

Lays  of  the  Scottish  Cavaliers.  Aytoun. 
27  Favorite  Poems.    Charles  Kingsley.    Favorite  Poems. 
Owen  Meredith.   Favorite  Poems.  Stedman. 

28.  Nathaniel  Hawthorne;  an  Essay.   Fields.   Tales  of  the 

White  Hills ;  Legends  of  New  England.  Hawthorne. 

29.  Oliver  Cromwell.    Carlyle.     A  Virtuoso's  Collection; 

Legends  of  the  Province  House.  Hawthorne. 

30.  The  Story  of  Iris;  Favorite  Poems.   Holmes.  Health. 

Dr.  John  Brown. 

31.  My  Garden  Acquaintance;  A  Moosehead  Journal.  Low- 

ell.  The  Farmer's  Boy.  Bloomtleld. 

32.  A  Day's  Pleasure ;  The  Parlor  Car.   Howell?.   A  True 

Story.   Mark  Twain. 

Modern  Classics.  Containing  Selections  from  Va- 
rious Authors.  12°   $1  25 

Modern  Doubt  and  Christian  Belief  Considered. 

Christlieb  (Theo.)  8°     3  00 

Modern  Genesis.  Being  an  Inquiry  into  the  Cred- 
ibility of  the  Nebular  Theory  of  the  Origin  of 
Planetary  Bodies,  the  Structure  of  the  So- 
lar Svstem,  and  of  General  Cosmical  History. 
Slaughter  (W.  B.)  16°  85 

*Modern  Prophets.  Interesting  and  Effective  Tem- 
perance Stories  for  the  Times.  Alden  (Mrs. 
G.  E.  [Pansy]),  and  Huntington  (Faye).  Illust.  12°     1  50 

Modern  Story-teller.  A  Collection  of  Amusing 
and  Entertaining  Anecdotes  Selected  from  the 
Best  Authors.  12°     1  25 

Mohammed  and  Mohammedanism.    Smith  (R.  B.)  12°     1  50 

Monarchy,  Sixth  Great.    Kawlinson.  8°     3  00 


CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


355 


Moon,  The.    Her  Motions,  Aspect,  Scenery,  and 

Physical  Conditions.    Proctor  (R.  A.)    Illust.    12°   $3  50 
Moore,  Rev.  Henry,  Life  of.    Smith  (Mrs.  R.)         12°  70 
*Morag.    A  Story  of  Highland  Life.  12°     1  00 

Moral  and  Political  Philosophy.  Paley  (Wm.)  12°  1  50 
Moral  Science.    A  Compendium  of  Ethics.  Bain 

(Alex.)  12°     1  50 

♦Mordecai's  Tenants.  Walker  (Miss  A.  D.)  Illust.  16°  65 
♦More  Ways  than  One.  Perry  (Alice).  Illust.  16°  1  50 
♦Morning  Bells;  or,  Waking  Thoughts  for  Little 

Ones.    Havergal  (F.  R.)  18°  25 

Morning,  Noon,  and  Night;  or,  Christ  in  Every 

Page.    A  Manual  of  Devotion.  8°     2  50 

Morning  of  Joy.    Bonar  (Horatius).  18°  60 

♦Morning  Stars;  or,  Names  of  Christ  for  His  Little 

Ones.    Havergal  (F.  R.)  18°  25 

Mormonism  and  the  Mormons.  Kidder  (D.  P.)  18°  45 
Morocco:  Its  People  and  Places.    Amicis  (Ed- 

mondo  De).    Illust.  12°     2  00 

Morris,  Rev.  Thomas  A.,  D.  D.,  Life  of,  Late  Senior 
Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
Marlay  (John  F.)  12°  150 

Morris's  Miscellany.    Essays,  Sketches,  etc.  12°     1  25 

Mortimer,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,   Memoir  of.  Bulmer 

(Agnes).  18°  45 

♦Moss  Rose  Series.  For  Very  Small  Children.  Illust. 

12  vols.    In  box.  32°     3  00 

Willie's  Wish.  Afraid  of  the  Dark. 

Curious  Tom.  Little  Minnie. 

The  Two  Mottoes.  Birthday  Present. 

Little  James.  A  Real  Victory. 

Old  Bon's  Stockings.  Sowing  Little  Seed. 

Little  Bertie.  Milly's  Doves. 

^Mother  Herring's  Chicken.  Meade  (L.  T.)  Illust.  12°  1  00 
Mother,  The,  At  Home ;  or,  The  Principles  of  Ma- 

"  ternal  Duty.    Abbott  (J.  S.  C.)    Illust.            16°  1  00 

Mother's  Recompense,  A.    Aguilar  (Grace).  Illust.  12°  1  00 

^Mother's  Gift  to  Her  Little  Ones  at  Home.             16°  50 

♦Mother's  Mission.  Sketches  from  Real  Life.  Illust.  16°  1  00 

Mother's  Practical  Guide.  Bakewell  (Mrs.  J.)  18°  50 
Mother,  Home,  and  Heaven.     A  Collection  of 

Poems.    Edited  by  Mrs.  J.  P.  Newman.           18°  1  25 


356 


CHURCH  LI  BR  ARIES. 


Mother  of  the  Wesleys.    Kirk  (John).  12°   $1  50 

Motives  of  Life.    Swing  (David).  16°     1  00 

Mrs.  Deane  's  Way.    The  Value  and  Happiness 
of  Trusting  in  God  happily  exemplified.  Hunt- 
ington (Faye).    Illust.  16°     1  25 
Mrs.  Harry  Harper's  Awakening.    A  Missionary 

Story.    Alden  (Mrs.  G.  R.  [Pansy].)    Illust.      12°     1  00 
*Mrs.  Thome's  Guests ;  or,  Salt  with  Savor  and  with- 
out.   Fell  (Archie).    Illust.  .        16°     1  50 
*Much  Fruit.    An  Earnest  Plea,  in  Story  Form,  to 
the  Young,  for  Kind  Deeds  and  Words  for  the 
Master's  Sake.    Homespun  (Sophia).    Illust.    16°     1  00 
Music  and  Morals.    Haweis  (H.  R.)    Illust.  12°     1  75 
Music  Study  in  Germany.    Fay  (Miss  Amy).          12°     1  25 
*My  Father  and  I ;  and  Helva's  Child.    The  two  in 

one  vol.    Marsh  (Katharine  M.)  12°     1  00 

*My  Hero.    Porter  (Mrs.  A.  E.)    Illust.  16°     1  50 

*My  Mates  and  I.  Exhibits  the  Contrasted  Results 
of  Lives  which  are  and  those  which  are  not 
Animated  by  a  Christian  Faith  and  Purpose. 
Illust.  16°     1  00 

*Myra  Sherwood's  Cross,  and  How  She  Bore  it. 

Illust.  16°     1  50 

My  Summer  in  a  Garden.  Warner  (Charles  D).  16°  1  00 
Mysteries   of  the  Head  and  Heart  Explained. 

Grimes  (J.  Stanley).    Illust.  12°     1  50 

Mythology,  Manual  of.  Murry  (A.  T.)  Illust.  8°  2  25 
*Myths  and  Heroes ;  or,  The  Childhood  of  the  World. 

Edited  by  S.  F.  Smith.    Illust.  16°     1  50 

Myths  and  Myth-makers.  Old  Tales  and  Supersti- 
tions interpreted  by  Comparative  Mythology. 
Fiske  (John).  12°     2  00 

Napoleon  and  His  Marshals.  (Headley  (J.  T.)  12°  2  50 
Napoleon  and  the  Marshals  of  the  Empire.  With 

Portraits.    Complete  in  1  vol.  8°     2  25 

Nations  Around,  The.  A  Sketch  of  the  Early  His- 
tory of  the  Great  Eastern  Empires,  whose 
Territories  surrounded,  and  sometimes  in- 
cluded, Palestine :  Forming  a  Supplement  to 
the  Jewish  History  in  the  Bible  Narrative. 
Kary  (A.)  12°     1  75 


CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


357 


Narrative  and  Miscellaneous  Papers.   De  Quincey 


( Inos.J 

QO 

o 

!t>L  IO 

National  Sermons.    Haven  (Gilbert). 

O 

9  OO 

Nature  and  Life.    Collycr  (R.) 

1  K(\ 

iNaiure  01  iji^mi,  wmi  a  vjontjrai  /vccouni  oi  x  nys- 

Oi^finc       T.iimmol  ( "P1.  ^  Tllncf 
it  til   VyLJUllyO.       IjIIIIUIH  1    v       /  XllU&l. 

19° 

9  no 

iNaiurai  vjoooness.    iviercein  (x.  r.  xv.j 

oo 

Natural  History,  Popular.    AVood  (J.  Gr.) 

ft0 
o 

1  7t; 
1  /0 

Nntnrnl  TTisrnrv  nf  flip  Rihlp      TrisfrnTn  (Tf   "R  ^ 

19° 

X4 

x  o\j 

Antiit'ol  Spipnpo  OTirl  "Rolifrinn       rj-roir  (  A  cq  ^ 
nidi  o^iL/iict;  tiiiLi  it(  i ij_, k )ii.     vjritiy  yjxtiai). 

19° 

1  (10 
X  UU 

Natural  Theology.    Paley  (William).    2  vols. 

1  ft0 

1  OU 

INJ  o       T*o  1 1  ci"    Trio    /"in   4*rifi   Txi^Toi'    A  mi7nn  T^o4*oc3 

ixaiuiiUiM,  xiitJ,  (iii  Lilt;  xvivtJi  xvniciAUii.  x>ciic». 

o 

9  ^0 
OU 

*Ned  and  His  Engine  ;  and  Will  and  John.  Two 

xiiitsrtjsiiiig  ji/iigiisxi  otontjs  ior  xxjys.  xiiusi. 

1  (\° 

i  on 

1  UU 

liuiguuor  ©  xioubtJ,  xiitJ.    iwo  ii cignooi ing  ^ami- 

lies  Contrasted.    Shaw  (Jennie  R. )  Illust. 

ID 

1  OU 

li  eign  uoi  ly  jl/Ov  tj.  mum. 

ID 

i  no 

1  UU 

'^Neither  Rome  nor  Judah.  Hoven  (Ernest).  Illust. 

IO 

1   1  o 
1  1U 

i>eison  (  or,  now  a  v^ouniry  x>oy  iviatiti  xiis  vv<iy 

in  tne  i_/ity.    xnayer  (win.  ivi.j 

1  A0 

1  9^ 

^'XTrkf+'in  "\Tnorvii4-Vi  •   ai*    r  1 1 1  \  .-a  Tio/1   ^  ~  i r1 1       CI Vi Ann n Tn/iion 

^iNeiiie  i>esmiin,  or,  ine  x>aci  ijriri.  onowing  xiiuian 

Character  and  Style  of  Life.    Homespun  (So- 

phia). Illust. 

ID 

i  no 
1  UU 

*New  Commandment,  The ;   or,  Ella's  Ministry. 

Shaw  (Jennie  K.)  Illust. 

1  CO 

ID 

1  oU 

New  Divinity,  System  of,  Examined.  Hodgson  (F.) 

1  no 

75 

New  England  Bird-life.    A  Manual  of  New  Eng- 

land  Ornithology.    Stearns  (Winifred  A.) 

AO 

2  50 

New  England  Divines,  Sketches  of.    Sherman  (D.) 

12° 

1  50 

'JNew  (jrralt  on  the  ramily  Iree,  A.    run  oi  trie 

Sweetness   of    Evangelical  Religion.  Alden 

(Mrs.  (jr.  K.  [JransyJ.J  Illust. 

1  oo 

L2 

1  50 

New  Life  Dawning,  and  Other  Discourses  of  the 

Late  B.  N.  Nadal,  D.  D. 

12° 

1  50 

♦Newlyn  House,  the  Home  of  the  Davenports.  Illust. 

16° 

1  25 

New  Plutarch  Series,  The.    Lives  of  Men  and  Wo- 

men of  Action.    13  vols. 

12° 

el  00 

Abraham  Lincoln  ;  the  Abolition  of  Slavery.  With  a  Por- 
trait.   Leland  (Charles  G.) 

Coligny :  the  Failure  of  the  French  Reformation.  With  a 
Portrait.   Besant  (Walter). 

Judas  Maccaba;us  and  the  Jewish  War  of  Independence. 
Conder  (Claude  Reignier). 


358 


CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


New  Plutarch  Series.  (Continued.) 

Victor  Emmanuel ;   the  Attainment  of  Italian  Unity. 

Dicey  ^Edward). 
Joan  of  Arc ;  the  Expulsion  of  the  English  from  France. 

Tuckey  (Janet). 
Alexander  the  Great  and  His  Age.   Brodribb  (W.  J.) 
The  Caliph  Haroun  al  Raschid ;   Saracen  Civilization. 

Palmer  (E.  H.) 
Richelieu  and  His  Court.    Pollock  (Walter  Hemes). 
Hannibal  and  Carthaginian  Civilization.    Lee  (Samuel). 
Harold  Fair -hair  and  the  Scandinavians.  Magnusson 

(Erik). 

Charlemagne  and  His  Time.    Beesley  (Prof.) 
Gustavus  Adolphus.    Garnett  (Richard). 
Whittington,  Lord  Mayor  of  Loudon.   Rice  (James). 


New  Puritan,  The.    New  England  Two  Hundred 


Years  Ago.    .rike  (J as.  o. ) 

1  oo 

12 

$1 

DU 

New  Testament  Church  Members.    Adams  (C.) 

12° 

75 

New  Testament  Expounded  and  Illustrated.  Moody 

(C.) 

CO 

o 
o 

DU 

New  Testament  History.    [Abridged.]  Maclear 

(Or.  t.) 

1  QO 

OA 

dU 

*JNext  1  rungs.    A  otory  lor  Little  rolks.  Alaen 

(Airs.  \y.  t\.  i_ransjj.j  lllllSt. 

1 

nn 
UU 

Nez  Perce  Joseph.    An  Aecount  of  His  Ancestors, 

His  Lands,  His  Confederates,  His  Enemies, 

His  Murders,  His  War,  His  Pursuit  and  Cap- 

ture.    Howard  (0.  U.) 

8 

50 

*New  York  Bible  Woman,  The.    Wright  (Mrs.  J. 

McNair).  Illust. 

1G° 

1 

10 

*New  York  Needle- woman,  The;  or,  Elsie's  Stars. 

Illust. 

16° 

80 

Night  Lessons  from  Scripture.    Sewell  (E.  M.) 

16° 

1 

00 

Night  of  Weeping.    Bonar  (Horatius). 

18° 

50 

Nile  Notes  of  a  Howadji.    A  Volume  of  Eastern 

Travels.    Curtis  (George  William). 

12° 

1 

50 

Nile  Tributaries  of  Abyssinia.    Baker  (S.  W.) 

8° 

o 

50 

Nineteen  Beautiful  Years ;  or,  Sketches  of  a  Girl's 

Life.    Willard  (Frances  E.) 

1G° 

1 

00 

Nineteenth  Century.  The.  A  History.  Mackenzie. 

(Roberta    English  Edition. 

12° 

1 

50 

Nineveh,  Discoveries  at.    Layard  (A.  H.)  Illust. 

12° 

1 

75 

•Nita's  Music-lesson,  and  Other  Stories.  Illust. 

18° 

40 

Nix's  Offerings.    Benning  (H.)  Illust. 

10° 

1 

25 

•No  Such  Word  as  Fail.  Illust. 

12° 

1 

00 

CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


359 


Noble  Deeds  of  American  Women.    Clement  (F.) 


Illust. 

1  oo 

11 

flfcl  OK 

!j>1  lo 

♦Noble  Life,  A;  or,  Hints  for  Living.  Kingsbury 

(0.  A.) 

1  fio 

1  OK 
1  10 

*Noble  Printer,  The,  and  His  Adopted  Daughter.  A 

Story  of  the  First  Printed  Bible.  Translated, 

with  additions,  by  Campbell  Overend.  Illust. 

1  ft0 

1  00 

*Noble  Workers.    Sketches  of  Men  who  have  risen 

to  Distinction.    Edited  by  o.  Jb .  bmith.  Illust. 

11 

1  DU 

♦Nobody  but  Nan. 

i 

lo 

QK 

oo 

*'Nora  Crena.    How  She  Saved  Her  Own.  Meade 

(L.  F.) 

11 

1  OK 

1  lo 

Normans  in  Europe,  The.    Johnson  (A.  H.) 

16° 

1  00 

^iNorse  Lite,  A  lale  oi.    rsoyesen  (ri.  ti.) 

11 

1  ok 
1  lo 

Norse  Mythology.    Anderson  (R.  B.) 

1  oo 
11 

0  KC\ 

1  Q\J 

*North  Pole  Voyages.    Embracing  Sketches  of  the 

Important  Facts  and  Incidents  in  the  Latest 

American  Efforts  to  Reach  the  North  Pole, 

from  the  Second  Grinnell  Expedition  to  the 

Polaris.    Mudge  (Z.  A.) 

16° 

1  AA 

1  00 

♦North-west,  Early  History  of  the.    Hildreth  (S.  P.)  16° 

QK 
OO 

North  American  Antiquities,  The.   Short  (John  T.) 

Illust. 

8° 

Q  AA 

♦Not  Bread  Alone;  or,  Miss  Helen's  Neighbors. 

Drinkwater  (Jennie  M.) 

16° 

1  25 

♦Note-book  of  the  Bertram  Family.    A  Sequel  to 

Winifred  Bertram.     By  the  Author  of  the 

Schonberg-Cotta  Family. 

12° 

1  00 

♦Nothing  Venture,  Nothing  Have.  Haven  (Mrs.  A.B.)  12° 

1  AA 
1  00 

*Now  and  Forever.    Leslie  (Mrs.  M.) 

12° 

1  00 

Nubia  and  Abyssinia.    Russell  (M.) 

18° 

75 

Obligations  of  the  World  to  the  Bible.  Spring 

(Gardiner). 

8° 

2  00 

Observations  in  the  East.    Durbin  (J.  P.)    2  vols. 

12° 

O  AA 

*Object  of  Life.    Illustrating  the  Insufficiency  of  the 

World  and  the  Sufficiency  of  Christ.  Illust. 

16° 

1  00 

♦Odd  One,  The.   Payne  (A.  M.  Mitchell). 

16° 

1  25 

Odes  of  Horace.    Translated  into  English  Verse. 

Martin  (Theodore). 

16° 

1  00 

Odyssey  of  Homer,  The.    W.  C.  Bryant's  Trans- 

lation. 

12° 

3  00 

360 


CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


Office  of  the  Holy  Communion  in  the  Book  of 
Common  Prayer.  A  Series  of  Lectures.  Goul- 


burn  ( rLi.  M.) 

12° 

$1 

00 

Official   Guide-book  to  Philadelphia.  Westcott 

(  1  hfihir^CAn  1  Tllno4- 
^  -UlUIlipfeUIl ).  XllUSl. 

16° 

1 

50 

umuai   -Aiemoeis  oi    tne    Metnouist  Lpiscopal 

t^nurcn,  Helps  to.    ±  orter  (James). 

16° 

70 

kjha  ana  i\ew  rrienas.    ine  otory  has  Pathos  and 

xvcii^iuus  Aunt;,    v/iivci  ^ivianaj.  must. 

i  no 
J  Z 

1 

50 

\jh\  ^naieau,  xiie.    ivicj\.eever  ^Harriet),  lllust. 

16° 

1 

50 

Old  England :  Its  Scenery,  Art,  and  People.  Hop- 

pin  (James  M.) 

16° 

1 

75 

Old  Friends  and  New.    Jewett  (Miss  Sarah  0.) 

18° 

1 

25 

*,:01d  Humphrey,  Half-hours  with.    Mogridge  (Geo.) 

16° 

85 

"Old  Looking-glass,  The.    Charles  worth  (Maria  L.) 

lllust. 

16 

1 

00 

TUla  3larket- cart,  ±ne.    A  Pleasant  iNarrative  of 

country  l^iie.    omitn  (Mrs.  r.  ±>. j  must. 

1  oo 

lo 

75 

uici  portmanteau.    Hamilton  (Jvate  \\.)  must. 

1  GO 

lb 

1 

00 

"Old  Schoolfellows,  and  AVhat  Became  of  Them. 

Tllnef 

must. 

1  P.O 

lo 

1 

1 

ZD 

uui  otone  riouse,  ine.    lviarcn  (Annaj.  must. 

lo 

1 

50 

*01d  Tales  Retold  from  Grecian  Mythology  in  Talks 

Around  the  Fire.    Lamed  (Augusta).  lllust. 

1  oo 

12 

1 

70 

Old  Testament  Characters  Delineated  and  Illus- 

trated.   Floy  (James). 

J  - 

1 

1 

Eft 

oU 

yjid  lestament  riisiory.  a unug^u.  i>iacit3cir  ^vj.  t.) 

lo 

on 
oU 

Old  Testament  Shadows  of  New  Testament  Truths. 

Abbott  ( Lyman),  must. 

QO 

O 

o 

a 

AA 

Oldtown  rolks.    htowe  (n.  ±>.) 

1  oo 
12 

1 

r  a 
50 

Ula  w  ells  .uug  uut.    oermons  oi  ±.  uevvitt  lai- 

mage. 

1  oo 

1Z 

J 

00 

*01io,  Boys'  and  Girls'.    An  Interesting  Work  for 

Children,  lllust. 

1  oo 

oU 

*01ive  Loring's  Mission.    Lawrence   (Annie  M.) 

must. 

1  0° 

1 
1 

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-Oliver  of  the  Mill.    Charlesworth  (Maria  L.) 

12° 

1 

50 

*0n  Board  the  Rocket.    Adams  (R.  C.)  lllust. 

12° 

1 

50 

*0n  Both  Sides  of  the  Sea.    A  Story  of  the  Com- 

monwealth and   the   Restoration.     Being  a 

Sequel  to  "The  Draytons  and  Davenants."  By 

the  Author  of  "The  Schbnberg-Cotta  Family." 

12° 

1 

00 

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361 


Un  tiic  l  urauies.    vxuuine  ( i  nomas  j.  xnusi. 

19° 

OO 

Un  tlic  1  imiis  and  Among  me  r t)<iKb  ,  or,  now  mis. 

iuaxweu  iviaae  xier  isaiurai  \^oiieLuoii.  i'tiru 

(Mary;. 

JO 

i 
i 

on 
uo 

*0n  the  Seas.    A  Story  for  Boys.  Illust. 

ID 

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*Only  Way  Out,  The.    A  Temperance  Story  of  the 

Highest  Order.    Willing  (Jennie  F.) 

1 

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*Onward  to  the  Heights  of  Lite.  Illust. 

1 

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W.  F.) 

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12° 

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16° 

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Longer  English  Poems. 
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Pastor's  Sketches ;  or,  Conversations  with  Anxious 

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opencer  ^x.  o.j  vois. 

JO 

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Wythes  (J.  H.) 

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Pastoral  Theology.    The  Pastor  in  the  Various  Du- 

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Philosophy  of  Food  and  Nutrition  in  Plants  and 

Animals.    Sidney  (E.) 

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Philosophy,  Principles  of  a  System  of.    An  Essay 

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1  9° 

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Pilgrim's  Progress. 

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Pilgrim's  Progress.    Bunyan  (J.) 

1  9° 

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Pilgrim  Fathers  of  New  England.    Martyn  (W.) 

1  9° 

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Pillar  of  Fire.    Ingraham  (J.  H.) 

1  9° 

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Pillars  in  the  Temple  j  or,  Lives  of  Deceased  Lay- 

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Smith  (W.  C.) 

12° 

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Pillars  of  Truth.    A  Series  of  Sermons  on  the  Dec- 

alogue.   Haven  (E.  0.) 

12° 

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Pioneer,  Autobiography  of  a.    Young  (Jacob). 

12° 

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Pioneer  Library,  The.    Thayer  (Wm.  M.)  Illust. 

3  vols, 

16° 

3  75 

Stories  of  the  Creation.         Soldiers  of  the  Bible. 

Stories  of  the  Patriarchs. 

Pioneers  and  Founders;  or,  Recent  Workers  in 

the  Mission-field.    Yonge  (C.  M.) 

8° 

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♦Pioneers  of  the  New  World.    With  an  Account  of 

the  Old  French  War.    Banvard  (Joseph). 

16° 

1  25 

Pioneers  of  the  West.    Strickland  (W.  P.) 

12° 

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Pioneer  Women  of  the  West,  The.    Ellet  (Eliza- 


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Poems  on  Moral  and  Religious  Subjects.  Lutton 

(Anne). 

12° 

50 

Poetical  Works  of  0.  W.  Holmes.  Household 

Edition. 

12° 

2 

00 

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ley, the  Eminent  Preacher  and  Poet.  Adams 

(C.)  Illustrated. 

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Poetic  Interpretations  of  Nature.    Shairp  (J.  C.) 

16° 

Jjjjl  zo 

Poetical  Works  of  Alice  and  Phoebe  Cary.  Red- 

line  Edition. 

8° 

3  50 

Poetical  Quotations,  Dictionary  of.    Watson  (J.  T.) 

12° 

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Poetical  Works  of  J.  R.  Lowell.  Household  Edition.  12° 

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Poetical  Works  of  Bayard  Taylor.  Household 

Edition. 

12° 

9  AA 
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16° 

40 

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Brackett  and  Ida  M.  Eliot. 

16° 

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8° 

9  Xf\ 
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Pointed  Papers.   For  the  Christian  Life.  Cuyler 

(T.  L.) 

12° 

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Politics  for  Young  Americans.  Nordhoff  (Charles).  16° 

70 

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12° 

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Thayer  (Wm.  M.) 

16° 

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12° 

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12° 

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18° 

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16° 

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12° 

85 

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12° 

7  50 

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12° 

1  75 

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4  vols.    In  a  box. 

16° 

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Popular  Science  Library,  The.  A  Series  of  Popu- 
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Health.   Smith  (Edward). 

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lated from  the  French  by  Eliza  A.  Youmans. 

The  Science  of  Music.   Taylor  (Sedley). 

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lated from  the  French  by  O.  B.  Frothingham. 

English  Men  of  Science,  their  Nature  and  Nurture.  Galton 
(Francis). 

*Posie,  the  Minister's  Daughter.    Illust.  16°     1  00 

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(W.  W.)  12°     2  00 

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in  Maintaining  the  Practice  of  Prayer,  in  the 
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Modern  Savages.    Lubbock  (Sir  John).  Illust.    8°     5  00 
Preparing  to  Teach.    For  Sunday-school  Teachers, 

etc.    Hall  (John)  and  Others.    Illust.  12°     1  75 

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Revelation  and  Applied  to  Female  Education 
in  the  Upper  Classes.  Sewell  (E.  M.)  12°  2  00 
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the  Earth  and  its  Inhabitants  Considered  as 


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Maps,  Plates,  etc.    2  vols. 

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(Maggie).  Illust. 

16° 

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18° 

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Problem  of  Evil.    Translated  from  the  French  of 

M.  Ernest  Naville.    Lacroix  (John  P.) 

12° 

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Illust. 

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18° 

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♦Rabaut  and  Bridaine.  From  the  French  of  L.  L. 
F.  Bungener.  A  Continuation  of  the  Fasci- 
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Illust.  12°  $1  50 

Races  of  European  Turkey,  The.    Their  History, 
Condition,  and  Future  Prospects.    Clark  (Ed- 
son  L.)  8°     3  00 
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Rachel  Weeping  for  Her  Children.    Vansant  (N.) 

Introduction  by  C.  N.  Sims.  18°  65 

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♦Raleigh,  Sir  Walter,  Life  and  Times  of,  Pioneer  of 

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Illust.  16°     1  00 

♦Ralph's  Possessions.    A  Revelation  of  the  Deeper, 

Heartfelt  Life.    Hopkins  (George).    Illust.       1G°     1  50 
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Randolphs,  The.  The  Characters  so  interesting  in 
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Reconciliation  of  Science  and  Religion.  Winchell 

;  (Alex.)  12°    2  00 

Recovery  of  Jerusalem,  The.  A  Narrative  of  Ex- 
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Recreations  in  Astronomy.  With  Directions  for 
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Relation  of  Civil  Law  to  Ecclesiastical  Polity,  Prop- 
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Religion  in  China.    Edkins  (Joseph).  8°     2  50 
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Religion  and  the  Reign  of  Terror ;  or,  The  Church 
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12^ 

1  50 

Religion  of  the  Family.    \\  lley  (I.  \V  .) 

16° 

90 

Religion,  Philosophy  of.    Dick  (T.) 

18° 

45 

-Religion  Recommended  to  louth.    Thayer  (Mrs.) 

24° 

25 

Religion  the  u  eal  and  Need  of  the  Church.  Stew- 

ard (G.) 

12° 

75 

Religious  Training  of  Children.    Ohn  (S.) 

18° 

20 

Religions  of  the  World,  The,  and  Their  Relations 

to  Christianity.    Maurice  (F.  D.) 

12° 

1  75 

Remains  of  Lost  Empires.    Sketches  of  the  Ruins 

of  Palmyra,  Nineveh,  Babylon,  ani  Persepolis. 

With  Some  Notes  on  India  and  the  Cashmer- 

ian  Himalayas.    Myers  (P.  V.  N.)  Illust. 

8° 

3  50 

Remarkable  Events  in  the  World's  Historv.  Young 

(L.  H.) 

12° 

1  25 

Remarkable  Examples  of  Moral  Recovery. 

18° 

40 

Remarkable  Providences,  Illustrating  the  Divine 

Government. 

12° 

1  75 

Reminiscences  by  Thomas  Carlyle.    Edited  by  Jas. 

A.  Froude.  (Illust.) 

16° 

50 

*Renata  of  Este.    From  the  German  of  Rev.  Carl 

Strack.    Hurst  (Catherine  E.) 

16° 

1  00 

Rent  Vail,  The.    Bonar  (Horatius). 

16° 

1  25 

Resurgit.    A  Collection  of  Hymns  and  Songs  of  the 

Resurrection.    Edited  with  Biographical  and 

Historical  Notes.    Foxcroft  (Frank). 

12° 

2  00 

Resurrection  of  the  Dead.    Kingsley  (C.) 

18° 

35 

Revivals,  Promotion  of,  Helps  to  the.  Watson  (J.  V.) 

12° 

85 

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Revivals  of  Religion.  Showing  their  Theory,  Means, 
Obstructions,  Importations,  and  Perversions, 
with  the  Duty  of   Christians  in  Regard  to 
Them.    Revised  and  Enlarged  Edition.  Por- 
ter (James).  12°   $1  00 
Revolt  of  the  Netherlands,  The.   Trial  and  Execu- 
tion of  Counts  Egmont  and  Horn,  and  the 
Siege  of  Antwerp.    Schiller  (Frederick).          12°     1  00 
*Rhoda's  Corner.    Payne  (Mrs.  A.  M.  Mitchell).      16°     1  25 
Richards,  Lucy,  Memoir  of.  18°  40 
*Riches  without  Wings.  Illustrated  by  Lessons  from 

Life.    Illust.  12°     1  50 

Ride  through  Palestine.  Dulles  (John  W.)  Illust.  12°  2  00 
Right  Way.    Lectures  on  the  Decalogue.  Crane 

(J.  T.)  12°  80 

Rivers  and  Lakes  of  Scripture.    Tweedie  (W.  K.) 

Illust.  1G°     1  00 

*Riverside  Farm,  A  Year  at.    Miller  (Emily  Hunt- 
ington).   Illust.  10°  85 
*Rob  and  Mag ;  or,  A  Little  Light  in  a  Dark  Corner. 

Marston  (L.)   Illust.  1G°  75 

Rob  Roy,  The,  on  the  Jordan,  Nile,  Red  Sea,  and 
Gennesareth,  etc.  A  Canoe  Cruise  in  Palestine 
and  Egypt  and  the  Waters  of  Damascus.  Mae- 
gregor  (J.)    Maps  and  Illust.  8°     2  50 

*Robbie  Meredith.    Cotter  (Mrs.  J.  J.)    Illust.        16°     1  00 
Robert  Dick,  Baker  of  Thurso,  Geologist  and  Bota- 
nist.   Smiles  (S.)    Illust.  12°     1  50 
*Robin  Tremayne :  A  Tale  of  the  Marian  Persecu- 
tion.   Holt  (Emily  S.)  12°  1^0 
Robinsons,  The.    Bissell  (Mary  L.)    Illust.  1G°     1  25 
Rocky  Mountains.    History  of  the  Exj>editions 
under  the  command  of  Captains  Lewis  and 
Clarke,  etc.,  during  the  Years  1804,  1805,  1806. 
2  vols.  18°     1  50 
Roddy's  Ideal.    Johnson  (Helen  K.)                     10°     1  00 
Roddy's  Reality.    Johnson  (Helen  K.)                  1G°     1  00 
Roddy's  Romance.    Johnson  (Helen  K.)               16°     1  00 
Rogers,  Hester  Ann,  Journal  of.                            16°  60 
Rollins's  Ancient  History.    2  vols.  8°     4  50 
Romance  of  American  History.    De  Yere  (M.  S.)    12°     1  50 
Romance  of  the  Harem.  Leono wens  (Mrs.  Anna  H.)  12°     1  25 


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Eomance  of  M.  Renan  and  the  Christ  of  the  Gos- 
pels.   Schaff  (P.)  and  Roussel  (M.)  12°   $1  00 
Romance  of  the  Revolution.    Being  True  Stories 
of  Heroic  Exploits  of  the  Days  of  '76.  Bunce 
(Oliver  B.)  12°     1  25 
•Romance  without  Fiction ;  or,  Sketches  from  the 
Portfolio  of  an  Old  Missionary.  Bleby  (Henry). 
1  must                                                       16°     1  50 
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Rome  and  Italy  at  the  Opening  of  the  (Ecumenical 
Council.    Depicted  in  Twelve  Letters  written 
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sense  (Edmond  De).  12°     1  25 
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Illust.  16°     1  50 

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Happy  Summer."    Illust.  16°     1  25 

♦Rosedale.    A  Story  of  Self-denial.    Gardner  (Mrs. 

H.  C.)  12°     1  50 

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Henry  Arden ;  or,  It  Is  Only  a  Pin. 

Honest  Gabriel ;  or,  The  Reward  of  Perseverance. 

Joe  Fulwood  ;  or.  Honesty  and  Perseverance  Triumphant. 

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The  Picnic  Party.  The  Twin  Brothers. 

The  Water-cress  Girl.  The  Violet  Girls. 

The  Little  Indian.  The  Two  Birthdays. 

Round  the  World.    A  Series  of  Letters.  Kingsley 

(Calvin).    2  vols.  12°     2  00 

Royal  Bounty  ;  or,  Evening  Thoughts  for  the  King's 

'  Guests.    Havergal  (F.  R.)  18°  25 

Royal  Commandments;  or,  Morning  Thoughts  for 

the  King's  Servants.    Havergal  (  F.  R.)  18°  25 

Royal  Invitation  ;  or,  Daily  Thoughts  on  Coming 

to  Christ.    Havergal  (F.  R)  18°  25 


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Minstrels.    Havergal  (F.  R.)  18°  25 

*Royal  Road  to  Fortune.   Miller  (Emily  H.)   Illust.  16°     1  25 
*  Roy's  Dory  at  the  Sea-shore.    A  Sequel  to  "  Push- 
ing Ahead."    Rand  (Edward  A.)    Illust.  16°     1  25 
♦Ruby  Hamilton.     Full  of   Stirring  Incident  and 
Earnest  Christian  Lessons.     Oliver  (Marie). 
Illust.  16°     1  50 
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*Rufus  the  Unready.  Farquharson  (Martha).  Illust.  16°     1  25 
♦Rule  and  Exercises  of  Holy  Living.    Taylor  (Jer- 
emy). 18°  75 
Rule  and  Exercises  of  Holy  Dying.   Taylor  (Jer- 
emy).                                                       18°  75 
Rule  of  Faith.   Appeal  from  Tradition.   Peck  (G.)  12°     1  00 
Ruskin  on  Painting.    With  a  Biographical  Sketch.  18°  GO 
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*Ruth  Erskine's  Crosses.    Showing  the  Power  of 
the  Word  of  God  to  Teach  and  Comfort.  Alden 
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Ruth  the  Moabitess,  the  Ancestress  of  Our  Lord. 

Houghton  (Ross  C.)    Illust.  12°     1  50 

♦Rutherford  Frown,  The.    Illust.  16°  75 

•Ruthie  Shaw ;  or,  The  Good  Girl.  A  Collection  of 
Well-drawn  Portraits.  Homespun  (Sophia). 
Illust.  16°     1  00 


Sabbath  Chimes.    Punshon  (W.  M.) 

12° 

1  70 

Sabbath,  Christian,  Practical  Considerations  on  the. 

McOwan  (P.) 

18° 

50 

•Sabbath-day  Book,  Child's. 

16° 

40 

♦Sabbath-school  and  Bible  Teaching.    Inglis  (J.) 

12° 

85 

Sabbaths,  The  Two.    Fuller  (E.  Q.) 

12° 

60 

♦Sabrina  Hackett.  Illust. 

16° 

1  50 

Sacraments  of  the  New  Testament,  The,  as  Insti- 

tuted by  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Armstrong 

(George  D.) 

8° 

2  50 

Sacred  Mountains.    Characters  and  Scenes  in  the 

Holy  Land.    Headley  (J.  T.) 

8° 

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the  Evangelists,  the  Apostles,  the  Doctors  of  the 
Church,  and  St.  Mary  Magdalene ; 
The  second,  the  Legends  of  the  Patron  Saints,  the  Martyrs, 
the  Early  Bishops,  the  Hermits,  and  the  Warrior 
Saints  of  Christendom,  as  represented  in  the  Fine 
Arts. 

Sacred  Annals.    Smith  (G.)    4  vols.    Sheep.  8°   11  25 

The  Patriarchal  Age.      The  Gentile  Nations. 
The  Hebrew  People.      Harmony  of  Divine  Dispensations. 
Sacred  Hour.    Gaddis  (M.  P.)  12°     1  00 

Sacred  Memories ;  or,  Annals  of  Deceased  Preach- 
ers of  the  New  York  and  New  York  East  Con- 
ferences.   Smith  (W.  C.)  16°     1  00 
Sacred  Tabernacle  of  the  Hebrews,  The.  Atwater 

(E.  E.)    Illust.  8°     2  50 

St.  Anselm.    Church  (R.  W.)  12°     1  75 

Saint's  Inheritance,  The.  Guthrie  (Thomas).  12°  1  50 
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Guizot  (M.)  12°     1  75 

Saintly  Workers.    Farrar  (F.  W.)  12°     1  25 

Saintly  and  Successful  Worker ;  or,  Sixty  Years  a 
Class-leader.  A  Biographical  Study.  Includ- 
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Class-meeting,  and  of  the  Art  of  Winning 
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Salmagundi.    Irving  (Washington).  16°     1  25 

Salvation,  Philosophy  of  the  Plan  of.    A  Book  for 

the  Times.    Walker  (James  B.)  12°     1  25 

•Sanford  and  Merton.    Day  (Thomas).  16°     1  00 

Satisfactory  Portion.    George  (A.  C.)  12°  50 

Saving  Faith  :  Its  Rationale.  Chamberlayne  (I.)  12°  100 
*Saxby.    A  Tale  of  Old  and  New  England.  Leslie 

(Emma).    Illust.  12°     1  25 

*Say  and  Do  Series,  The.    Warner  (Miss  Anna). 

6  vols.    In  a  box.  16°   el  25 

Little  Camp  on  Eagle  Hill.        A  Fiag  of  Truce. 
Willow  Brook.  Bread  and  Oranges. 

Scepters  and  Crowns.  Rapids  of  Niagara. 


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A.)  Illust. 

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12° 

1 

75 

*Science  for  the  Young.  Abbott  (J.)  Illust.  4  vols. 

12° 

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Heat.      Light.      Water  and  Land.  Force. 

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12° 

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75 

Science  of  Life  ;  or,  Animal  and  Vegetable  Biology. 

Wythe  (J.  H.)  Illust. 

12° 

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Science,  Philosophy,  and  Religion.    Bascom  (J.) 

12° 

1 

75 

Science  Primers.    Edited  by  Profs.  Huxley,  Ros- 

coe,  and  Balfour  Stewart. 

18° 

en 

45 

Introductory.   Huxley  (T.  H.) 

Chemistry.   Roscoe  (H.  E.) 

Physics.  Stewart  (Balfour.) 

Physical  Geography.   Gcikie  (Archibald.) 

Geology.   Gcikie  (Archibald). 

Physiology.   Foster  (M.) 

Astronomy.   Lockyer  (J.  Norman). 

Botany.  Hooker  (J.  D.) 

Logic.  Jevons  (W.  S.) 

Inventional  Geometry.   Spencer  (W.  G.) 

Piano-forte  Playing.  Taylor  (Franklin). 

Political  Economy.  Jevons  (W.  S.) 

Natural  Resources  of  the  United  States.  Patton  (J.  N.) 

Scotch  and  Irish  Seed  in  American  Soil.  The  Early 
History  of  the  Scotch  and  Irish  Churches,  and 
Their  Relations  to  the  Presbyterian  Church  of 
America.    Craighead  (J.  G.)  16°     1  00 

Scramble  Among  the  Alps.    Whymper  (F.)  8°     2  50 

Scripture  Manual,  The.    Alphabetically  and  Sys- 
tematically Arranged.    Designed  to  Facilitate 
the  Finding  of  Proof-texts.    Simmons  (Chas.)   12°     1  75 
Scripture  Promises.    Clarke  (Samuel).  32°  50 

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Sears,  Mrs.  Angeline  B.,  Memoir  of.  Hamline 


(Mrs.  Melinda). 

Jo 

Sea  Sermons.    Lorraine  (Alfred  M.) 

1  no 

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and.  A.) 

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Second  Arctic  Expedition.    Ivane  (E.  K.)    2  vols. 

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Secret  of  the  Lord,  The.    Shipton  (Anna). 

1  ft0 
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7K 

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votion.    Robinson  (Geo.  C.) 

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12° 

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18° 

40 

Self-knowledge,  Treatise  on.    Mason  (J.) 

18° 

45 

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8° 

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18° 

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2  00 

Sermons  and  Essays  on  the  Apostolic  Age.  Stan- 

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12° 

2  25 

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8° 

3  00 

Sermons.    Brooks  (Phillips). 

12° 

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Sermons.    Clark  (D.  W.) 

12° 

Sermons.    Hamilton  (R.  Winter).    With  a  Sketch 

of  his  Life  by  Bishop  Simpson. 

12° 

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Sermons,  Fraternal  Camp-meeting.    Preached  by 

Ministers  of  the  Various  Branches  of  Method- 

ism at  the  Round-lake  Camp-meeting. 

12° 

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Sermons,  Occasional,  and  Reviews  and  Essays. 

Floy  (James). 

12° 

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Others. 

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12° 

1  25 

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burn  (h.  M.) 

12° 

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bermons  and  1  ravels  in  the  .hast,    Stanley  (Ar- 

thur  Jr.) 

12° 

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Sermons  on  Nature  s  Testimony  to  Nature  s  God. 

JNewton  (Win.) 

12° 

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no 

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serpent-charmer,  llie.    Kousselet  (JL.)  Illust. 

oo 
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2  50 

Seven  Lamps  of  Architecture.  Ruskin. 

1  OO 

1-2 

1  7o 

"*Seven  Little  People  and  Their  Friends.  Scudder 

/XT  T7<  \  Tll..^t 

(Horace  h.j  Illust. 

16° 

75 

*Seven  Wonders  of  the  World.  Illust. 

16° 

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the  Last  Sayings  of  Christ.    Adams  (W.  H.) 

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Illust. 

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60 

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*Sheer  Off.    A.  L.  O.  h.  Illust. 

18° 

75 

*Shell  Cove.    A  Story  of  the  Sea-shore  and  of  the 

CI                   HjT        1              /  fTf        A      \          Til  X 

Sea.    Mudge  (Z.  A.)  Illust. 

16° 

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16° 

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Shield  of  Faith ;  or,  Articles  of  Religion,  General 

Rules,  Baptismal  and  Church  Covenants,  and 

Methodist  Episcopacy.    With  Scripture  Proofs. 

XT          ^  -    _    /  X>  _._x  — .1  ^-l- \ 

Hawley  (Bostwick). 

16° 

25 

^Shining  Hours.    Moraine  (Paul).  Illust. 

i  no 

lo 

1  50 

*Shoe-binders,  I  he,  of  New  York;  or,  The  Fields 

White  to   the   Harvest.      Wright   (Mrs.  J. 

MciNairj.  inust. 

10 

80 

*fc>hore  and  Ucean,  A  lale  or  the.  ivingston  ( w .  H.  (jr., 

Illust. 

1  oo 

1  50 

^Short-comings  and  Long-goings.    Lessons  of  Duty 

and  Religion.    Eastman  (Julia  A.)  Illust. 

i  no 
lb 

1  ore 
1  LO 

Short  History  of  Art.    DeForest  (Julia  B.)  Illust. 

8° 

2  00 

Short  History  of  English  Colonies  in  America. 

Lodge  (H.  C.) 

8° 

3  00 

Short  History  of  English  People.    Green  (J.  R.) 

8° 

1  50 

*81iort  History  of  France  for  Young  People,  A.  Kirk- 

land  (Miss  E.  S.) 

12° 

1  50 

380 


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oixon  ooimoii  on  ^onsecranon  cinu.  xviiiuxtju.  xjiciiico. 

\jreorge  \a- 

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no 

RlViO-rio         AtlfinoAn    CV    TV  \  Tllncf 

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DVJ 

oigiiis  <iiiu.  xnsigiits ,  or,  xvno leuge   uy  xravei. 

Warren  (Henry  W.)  Illust. 

10 

1 

uu 

"  Signal  Lights. 

X 

"■'Signet  Ring,  and  Other  Gems.    Liefde  (I.  De). 

XO 

1 
1 

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""Silas  Gower's  Daughters.     Noble   (Annette  L.) 

Tllncf 

X11USI. 

XO 

1 
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ox 

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Silence  and  Voices,  The.    Farrar  (F.  W\) 

1 

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*Silent  Tom.    A  Picture  of  the  Life  of  Our  Times. 

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^VJ.  Xj.  ilt.)  xllUSl. 

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Similarities  of  Physical  and  Religious  Ivnowledge. 

x>ixDy  ^j.  x.j 

19° 

1 

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oo 

^Simple  Stories  with  Odd  Pictures  j   or,  Evening 

Amusements  for  the  Little  Ones.  Ivonewka 

mnnl\      Til  net 

^xauij.  xnusi. 

XO 

Olllllcl    ilHU.    (Otlllll.       xi.    OLOIV   Ol    LI1VJ     >V  UlJlall  O   \jl  u. 

sade.    Hopkins  (A.  A.) 

19° 

1 

X 

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XO 

1 

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oistei  lMargarei,  i>iy.  xjQwarcis  ^i>irs.  \j.  ai.)  inust. 

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1 
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Illust. 

16° 

75 

"  Six  IVIonths  at  INlrs.  Prior's.    A  Story  of  "V\  omanly 

^XLilllliyj.  JLllllSL. 

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1 

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9 
— 

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r-Six  Years  in  India ;  or,  Sketches  of  India  and  its 

PoaaI A    o. a    NAAn   l\"\r  n    T  orlir    ificci Anin'  •  lrnrATi 

xtjopic,  tie  oucii  uy  d  Xjcioy  nj-ihoiuiicii  y  .  vjrivtjn 

in    o    ^AriAG   / \ f    T  off ora  f / \   TTov  AT/\fli rir*  TTnm- 

„T_  ■^^•cr   /"]\T>.c     17      T   \        Q  Tllnr-f 

pnrey  (ivirs.  Hj.  j.)    o  must. 

1  9° 

1 

X 

no 

Sketch-book;  or,  I\Iiscellaneous  Anecdotes.  Smith 

(W.  C.) 

12° 

1 

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Sketch-book.  Irving  (Washington).  People's  Edi- 

tion. 

1 

25 

CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


381 


Sketches  and  Collections.    Carroll  (A.) 

12° 

<*61  9^ 
«JpA  ZD 

Sketches  and  Incidents.    Stevens  (A.) 

18° 

P.K 

bo 

Sketches  and  Studies  in  Southern  Europe.  Symonds^ 

/  T        A      \          9  ir/-,l«3 

(J.  A.)     Z  VOlS. 

jy  9  no 

6  Z  UU 

Sketches,  Biographical  and   Incidental.  Thom- 

son (E) 

1 00 

1  OK 
1  ZO 

Sketches  from  the  Study  of  an  Itinerant.  Stevens 

(A  oel). 

1 00 
12 

TK 

"  Sketches,  Literary  and  Religious.    House  (Erwin). 

1  QO 

Kf\ 

oU 

Sketches  of  Art,  Literature,  and  Character.  Jame- 

son (Anna). 

18 

1  oU 

Sketches  of  Creation.    Winchell  (Alex.) 

1  9° 
1Z 

9  nn 
Z  UU 

Sketches  of  Illustrious  Soldiers.    Wilson  (Jas.  G.) 

lb 

1  OU 

♦Sketches  of  Pioneer  History.    Hildreth  (S.  P.) 

1Z 

1  nn 
1  UU 

oketcnes  ot  Western  Methodism,    rinley  (J.  U.) 

1  00 

lz 

1  7K 

1  ID 

hmitn,  Kev.  John,  Memoirs  ot.    lrenry  (K.J 

18° 

OU 

♦Smith's  Saloon ;  or,  the  Grays  and  the  Grants. 

\v  ortn  { lurs.  jl.  i^. ) 

lb 

1  UU 

*'So  as  by  Fire.    Sidney  (Margaret).  Illust. 

lz 

1  OK 

1  ZD 

Socialism.    Cook  (Joseph). 

12° 

1  K(\ 

1  OU 

Solar  Light  and  Heat:  The  Source  and  Supply. 

Allen  (Ziacn.)  illust. 

1  Krt 
1  oU 

♦Soldiers  and  Patriots  of  the  Revolution.    The  Inci- 

dents are  Interesting  -and  the  History  Valu- 

able,    Banvard  (Joseph).  Illust. 

1  no 

Jb 

1  ok 

1  ZD 

♦Soldier  Fritz  and  the  Enemies  he  fought.  Illust. 

1  no 

lb 

7K 

to  0.  tt:ii                ix^x  i  „n„      th  l 

*  feome  know  llill  Girls.    Mitchella.  Illust. 

16° 

1  on 

1  UU 

Song,  A,  and  a  Sigh.    Porter  (Rose). 

16° 

1  OK 

1  zo 

Song  of  the  jSew  Creation,  The.    Bonar  (H.) 

10° 

1  OK 

1  ZD 

Song  Pilgrimage  Around   the    World.  Phillips 

(Philip). 

8 

2  00 

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Songs  of  Many  Seasons.    Holmes  (0.  W.) 

16° 

2  00 

Songs  of  Sunshine  and  Shadow.    Moore  (Maude). 

16° 

1  25 

Sound.    Tyndall  (John).  Illust. 

12° 

Z  UU 

South  Africa,  Memorials  of.    Shaw  (Barnabas). 

1  9° 
1Z 

bo 

♦Southern  Explorers  and  Colonists ;  or,  An  Account 

of  the  Early  Settlement  of  North  Carolina  and 

Virginia.    Banvard  (Joseph).  Illust. 

16° 

1  OK 

J.  zo 

Sovereigns  of  the  Bible,  The.    Steele  (Eliza  R.) 

16° 

90 

Spain  and  the  Spaniards.    Amicis  (Edmondo  De). 

Illust. 

8° 

2  00 

Spain  and  the  Spaniards.    Thieblin  (N.  L.) 

12° 

1  50 

382 


CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


Spain  in  Profile.    A  Summer  Among  Olives  and 
Aloes.    Harrison  (Jas.  A.)     "Little  Classic" 

Style.  18°  $1  50 
Spanish  Conquests  in  America.    Helps  (Arthur). 

4  vols.                                                         12°  6  00 

Spanish  Papers.    Irving  (Washington).                  16°  1  25 

Speaking  to  the  Heart.    Guthrie  (Thomas).            12°  1  50 

Specimens  of  German  Romance.    Carlyle  (T.)         12°  1  25 

Spectacle  Series,  The.                                         16°  el  00 

1.  The  House  with  Spectacles.    Robinson  (Leora  B.) 

2.  Patsy.   Robinson  (Leora  B.) 

3.  Six  Sinners.   Wheaton  (Campbell). 

Speeches  of  Daniel  Webster.    Tefft  (B.  F.)  12°     1  25 

Spiritualism :  With  the  Testimony  of  God  and  Man 

Against  It.    McDonald  (W.)  12°     1  00 

Spiritualism  and  Necromancy.    Morrison  (A.  B.)     12°     1  00 
Spiritual  Struggles  of  a  Roman  Catholic.    An  Au- 
tobiographical Sketch.    Beaudry  (Louis  N.)      12°     1  00 
Spirit  of  Life.    Bickersteth  (E.  H.)  12°     1  25 

Spiritual  Letters  to  Men.  Fenelon  (Archbishop).  12°  1  25 
Spiritual  Letters  to  Women.  Fenelon  (Archbishop).  12°  1  25 
Spiritual  Progress ;  or,  Instructions  in  the  Divine 
Life  of  the  Soul.  Fenelon  (Archbishop). 
Including "  Christian  Counsel  and  Spiritual 
Letters,"  and  Madame  Guyon's  "Short  and 
Easy  Method  of  Prayer."  12°     1  50 

Sports  that  Kill.    Sermons  by  T.  DeWitt  Talmage.  12°     1  25 
Spur  of   Monmouth,   The ;   or,   Washington  in 
Arms.    A  Historical  and  Centennial  Romance 
of  the  Revolution,  etc.  12°     1  75 

*Squire  of  Walton  Hall,  The ;  or,  Sketches  and  In- 
cidents from  the  Life  of  Charles  Waterton, 
Esq.,  the  Adventurous  Traveler  and  Daring 
Naturalist.    Wise  (Daniel).   Illust.  16°     1  00 

Standard  Series  of  Temperance  Tales,  The.  Chellis 

(Mary  Dwinell).    Illust.    4  vols.    In  box.        16°     5  00 
Bill  Drock's  Investment.      Mark  Dunning's  Enemy. 
The  Old  Doctor's  Son.         Gray  Heads  on  Green  Shoulders. 

*Stanifords  of  Stamford's  Folly,  The.    Full  of  Fine 
Feeling  and  Sound  Teaching.     Kendall  (Mrs. 
E.  D.)    Illust.  16°     1  50 

*St.  Augustine's  Ladder.  Noble  (Annette  L.)  Illust.  16°     1  50 


CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


383 


Star  of  our  Lord;  or,  Christ  Jesus,  King  of  all 
Worlds,  both  of  Time  or  Space.  With 
Thoughts  on  Inspiration  and  the  Astronomic 


Doubt  as  to  Christianity.  Upham  (Francis  W.)  12° 

<t>L  OU 

c?tars  ana  me  Ji/ann,  ine,    or,  inougnis  upon 

Space,  Time,  and  Eternity. 

lb 

rtU 

*Stella  and  the  Priest ;  or,  the  Star  of  Rockburn. 

Loring  (Laurie).    11  lust. 

lb 

1  00 

^fetellaiont  Abbey.    Marshall  (Himmaj. 

lb 

i  no 
1  uu 

Stepping  Heavenward.    Prentiss  (Mrs.  E.) 

1  oo 

Jus 

1  7Pi 
1  10 

*Stepping-Stones.  A  Story  of  Our  Inner  Life.  Doud- 

ney  (Sarah). 

1  AO 
lb 

1  AA 
1  UU 

Stewards  and  the  People.   Porter  (J.)  Paper.  Per 

dozen. 

1  c° 
lo 

AO 

Sier,  Rudolf,  Life  of.   From  German  Sources.  La- 

croix  (John  P.) 

1  9° 

1  ZD 

Still  Hour ;  or,  Communion  with  God.  Phelps 

(Austin). 

1  A° 

Aft 
OU 

Stoner,  David,  Life  of/ 

1  «° 
lo 

tu 

*Stony  Road.    A  Scottish  Story  from  Real  Life. 

lb 

/  O 

*Storehouse  of  Stories,  A.    Yonge  (C.  M.)     2  vols. 

i  a° 
lb 

o  1  oo 
e  1  UU 

*otory  ot  tne  Apostles,  lllust. 

1  oo 

lb 

AO 

bU 

otory  oi  tne  r>attie  oi  watenoo,  a  irue.  vjrieig 

Id     T>  \ 

1  9° 

i  ^n 

1  OU 

Story  of  Aunt  Lizzie  Aiken,  The.    Anderson  (Mrs. 

Galusha).    W^ith  Portrait. 

1  A° 

i  no 

1  UU 

*Story  of  the  Christians  and  the  Moors  of  Spain. 

Yonge  (L/.  M.j 

1  DO 

lo 

1  9t 
1  zo 

otory  oi  tne  xuartn  ana  lvian,  ine.    uawson  [j.  w. 

Tllnat 

must. 

1  9° 

i  Kn 

1  OU 

*Story  of  English  Literature  for  Young  Readers, 

rpv,_       \¥7"L  *  j      /  T   /T  tl  \       Til  i. 

ine.    Wbite  (Lucy  Gecilj.  lllust. 

1  oo 

1  ZD 

*Story  of  the  Faith  in  Hungary.  lllust. 

16° 

OK 
OO 

♦Story  of  a  Fellow-soldier.   The  Life  of  Bishop  Pat- 

terson.   Narrated  for  the  Young.   Awdry  (F.) 

lllust. 

16° 

1  00 

Story  of  the  Great  March.    Diary  of  General  Sher- 

man's Campaign  through  Georgia  and  the  Car- 

olinas.    Nichols  (George  W.)  lllust. 

12° 

2  00 

♦Story  of  Four  Lives,  A.    Four  Young  Ladies  Just 

Leaving  School.    Dunning  (Mrs.  A.  K.)  lllust.  16° 

1  50 

♦Story  of  Liberty,  The.    Coffin  (C.  C.)  lllust. 

8° 

3  00 

384 


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*Story  of  Madagascar.   Mears  (Jolm  W.)  Illust. 

1  A° 

©1 
$1 

Id 

oiury  01  Jidiiusci ipib.   v>  nil  x  ac-biiiine  inubiraiionb 

of  \  arious  New  Testament  Manuscripts.  Mer- 

Till  ( nporcrp^ 

A  111    ^VJCvI  gvji 

12° 

i 

X 

*C|nrv  r\f  q  Pnnlraf  T^iVilo  Tllnct 

oiory  oi  d,  Jl  ocKei  xjioie.  iiiubt. 

1  A° 

1 

1 

Storv  of  thp  Pruvprs  of  Christian  Historv  Tllnst 

12° 

1 

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oioneo  aiiu  xrvomanceb.    ocuuuer  ^xiorace  xu.) 

lo 

1 

-0 

'■"Kt  atmpc.  frnm   Anpipnf  TTistAT-v       Strir-Vlcmrl  (  Arrnoc^ 
uiuiics  ii  uiu  ^riiiLiciit  xxioiuij'.     *~  u  lLKidJiu  ^-figiicby. 

Illust. 

1  fi° 
xo 

1 

1 

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^■"RtATiPC  fyAm   "P^nrrlicn    T-TictAr"\r       Sstr-ir»Lrl  o  n      /"  A  «-tta  tic?  \ 

oiui  icb  lionx  xidigubii  xxibiory.    oincKidnu  ^iignesj. 

Xll  List. 

1  A0 
10 

1 
1 

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UIUI1C3  11  UIU   XAIBLUI  Y.       »-  Li  lttvlallU    I  -f\.i£llt/0  J .  XJilloL. 

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KJLU11CO  11U1X1  J.1JLUU.C1  11   XXIBlUlJ'.       Oil  ILhldllU  ^XlgllCD^. 

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oiorieb  irom  iiie  nisiones  oi  rvoine.    x>eesiy  ^iurs.j 

1  A0 
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*fetories  from  the  Moorland.    A  Story  of  the  Scotch 

1    AVDTl  O  Tl  f  nt»0           T^Q  f  DQ    1  T<  1 170  V*£i4"  V»  \  Tllnct 

\jO V clldlllci b.     X>d.ieb  ^HiUZdOeillJ.  XllUbl. 

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1  9° 

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to  iiie  xL<nu  oi  me  xn.e>oiuiioii.  vuuh.t!  ^ooim  j-**) 

19° 

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OLiciigLii  ainx  xjcauiy.     x^iauus&iuiio  iui  iuuiig  o.tj.cij. 

Hopkins  (Mark.) 

12° 

1 

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rMriKing  ior  toe  xvigiii.    xL/dbuiidii  ^juiia  xi.^  xnubi. 

1U 

1 

otUQent  s  Classical  uicuonary  oi  xjiograpii  v ,  iuy 

thology,  and.  Oeography.     Smith  (William). 

Illust. 

12° 

1 

25 

Student's  Historical  Series.    Uniform  in  Style. 

12° 

Ancient  History  of  the  East.  From  the  Earliest 

Times  to  the  Conquest  by  Alexander  the 

Great.    Smith  (Philip). 

1 

25 

CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


385 


Student's  Historical  Series.  (Continued.) 

General  History  of  Greece,  A.  From  the  Ear- 
liest Period  to  the  Death  of  Alexander  the 
Great.  With  a  Sketch  of  the  Subsequent 
History  to  the  Present  Time.    Cox  (G.  W.)         $1  25 

History  of  Greece  from  the  Earliest  Times  to 
the  Roman  Conquest.    Smith  (Wm.)  1  50 

History  of  France.  From  the  Earliest  Times 
to  the  Establishment  of  the  Second  Empire 
in  1852.    Jervis  (W.  H.)  1  25 

History  of  Germany.  From  the  Earliest  Times. 
Lewis  (C.  T.)    Illust.  1  50 

History  of  the  Christian  Church,  The.  During 
the  First  Ten  Centuries  from  its  Foundation 
to  the  Full  Establishment  of  the  Holy  Ro- 
man Empire  and  the  Papal  Power.  Smith 
(Philip).    Illust.  1  50 

General  History  of  Rome,  A.  From  the  Foun- 
dation of  the  City  to  the  Fall  of  Augustulus. 
B.  C.  753— A.  D.  476.  Merivale  (Charles). 
With  Maps.  1  25 

Constitutional  History  of  England,  The.  From 
the  Accession  of  Henry  VII  to  the  Death  of 
George  II.    Hallam  (Henry).  1  25 

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(Leone).  Illust. 

16 

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25 

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acter by  what  are  often  Deemed  Little  and 

Unimportant  Things.   Dunning  (Mrs.  A.  K.) 

Til  —  —i. 

Illust. 

1  GO 

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25 

inp  to  England,  ine.     winter  (wm.j  r/iioto. 

Illust 

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Trip  up  the  Volga.  Munro-Butler- Johnstone  (H.  A.) 

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or: 

Triumph  Over  Death.   A  Narrative  of  the  Closing 

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man). 

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12 

c) 

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True  Manliness.    From  the  Writings  of  Thomas 

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ID 

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True  Order  of  Studies,  The.    Hill  (Thomas). 

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25 

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*Trust  in  God  j  or,  Three  Days  in  the  Life  of  Gellert. 

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8° 

3 

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Unbelief  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,  as  Contrasted 

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(John). 

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16° 

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Why  Four  Gospels  ?  or,  The  Gospel  for  all  the 

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^Through  the  Looking-glass,  and     hat  Alice  Found 

There.    Carroll  (Lewis).  Illust. 

19° 
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jLnree  in  .\ orw2 \ .    ij\  x>\u  <ji  j-uem.  inusu 

12° 

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To-days  and  Yesterdays.   Cooke  (Carrie  Adelaide). 

19° 
1- 

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*True  Womanhood.     Hints  on  the  Formation  of 

Womanly  Character.    Johnson  (rranklinj. 

1  A° 

lo 

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■  Ualnut  Grove  Series.    Illust.    4  \ois. 

1  A° 

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Good  Measure.           Making  Honey. 

Carl  Bartlett.              Little  Peanut  Merchant. 

Water-babies,  The.    A  Fairy  Tale  for  a  Land-baby. 

Kingsley  (Charles).  Illust. 

16° 

1 

75 

*What  Our  Girls  Ought  to  Know.  Studley  (Mary  J.) 

16° 

1 

00 

^World's  Foundation,  The ;  or,  Geologj^  for  Begin- 
ners.   Giberne  (Agnes).  12°     1  50 
Yesterdays  with  Authors.    Fields  (James  T.)         12°     2  00 


Missionary  Literature. 


The  Missionary  Theme  is  inexhaustible,  and  furnishes  a 
fruitful  field  for  the  highest  manifestations  of  genius  in  present- 
ing the  work  and  its  necessities  in  such  a  light  as  to  draw  to 
itself  the  careful  consideration  of  not  only  Churches,  but  na- 
tions also.  Nations  and  Churches  are  composed  of  individuals. 
If  we  shall  succeed  in  teaching  individuals,  then  whole  nations 
and  Churches  shall  be  taught  and  inspired. 

In  this  work,  as  in  all  other  great  undertakings,  the  printing- 
press  has  been  made  to  serve  its  purpose.  Missionary  litera- 
ture has  multiplied;  and  much  that  has  been  written,  without 
this  purpose  specially  in  view,  has  been  pressed  into  its  service, 
and  made  to  do  valiant  work  in  giving  us  a  comprehensive  view 
of  the  dark  places  of  the  earth  and  the*ir  great  need  of  the 
Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  an  elevating  and  refining 
influence. 

Christian  missions  are  no  longer  subject  to  the  blind  im- 
pulses of  emotions  aroused  by  the  glowing  rhetoric  of  eloquent 
orators,  nor  is  prosperity  longer  dependent  upon  the  stimulated 
fervor  of  the  passing  hour.  What  Churches  demand  to-day 
is  broad  and  comprehensive  intelligence  upon  this  subject. 
They  would  know  facts,  and  then  meet  these  facts  with  intelli- 
gent action.  As  this  knowlege  increases,  the  sense  of  respons- 
ibility intensifies,  and  benevolence  will  become  a  positive  factor 
in  churchly  life. 

In  presenting  the  following  very  complete  and  comprehen- 
sive Catalogue  of  Books  and  Tracts,  illustrating  the  different 
fields  of  Protestant  missionary  labor  and  the  different  phases 
of  missionary  work,  we  do  so  recognizing  the  demand  of  the 
Church  for  a  broad  and  universal  knowledge  of  this  important 
theme. 

We  believe  all  the  books  and  tracts  here  mentioned  are 
worthy  of  perusal  and  study,  and  that  by  reading  them  our 
people  will  be  inspired  with  a  zeal  for  the  divinely  appointed 
scheme  for  evangelizing  the  entire  world,  and  redeeming  lost 

35 


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CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


and  perishing  humanity  from  the  darkness  of  superstition  and 
thralldom  of  death,  and  bringing  them  to  the  glorious  life  and 
liberty  of  the  children  of  God. 


1.    GENERAL  TREATMENT  OF  MISSIONS. 


Foreign  Missionary  Manual.   Contains  much  Infor- 

mation.   Dobbins  (F.  S.) 

16° 

ci  fin 

Foreign  Missions.    Anderson  (Eufus). 

12° 

1  ZD 

Foreign  Protestant  Missions.    Christlieb  (Theodor). 

16° 

iO 

Missionary  Papers.    Lowrie  (J.  C.) 

12° 

1  ZD 

Proceedings  of  the  First  Interseminary  Missionary 

Convention.    Paper  cover. 

8° 

or; 
ZD 

Problem  of  Eeligious  Progress,  The.  Dorchester  (D.)  12° 

Z  UU 

2.    GENERAL  HISTORY. 

Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  The. 

Lowrie  (J.  C.) 

12° 

75 

Historical  Sketches  of  Woman's  Missionary  Socie- 

ties.   Daggett  (Mrs.  L.  H.) 

16° 

75 

History  of  the  Missions  of  the  American  Board. 

[India,  Sandwich  Islands,  Oriental  Churches, 

2  vols.]    Anderson  (Rums).    4  vols. 

12° 

el  50 

Missionary  Sketches.  A  Concise  History  of  the  Work 

of  the  American  Baptist  Union.    Smith  (S.  F.) 

16° 

1  00 

Missions  and  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist 

Episcopal  Church.    Reid  (J.  M.)    2  vols. 

12° 

3  00 

Woman's  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  The,  of  the 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church.    Wheeler  (Mrs. 

Mary  Sparkes). 

12° 

1  50 

Woman's  Medical  Work  in  Foreign  Lands.  Gracey 

(Mrs.  J.  T.) 

16° 

30 

3.  BIOGRAPHY. 

Heroines  of  the  Mission  Field.   Pitman  (Mrs.  E.  R.) 

12° 

1  50 

Leaders  of  the  Church  Universal.    From  the  Ger- 

man of  Dr.  Piper.    Maccracken  (H.  M.) 

8° 

3  00 

Journal  and  Letters  of  Henry  Martyn.  Wilber- 

force  (S.) 

12° 

1  25 

Life  of  Alexander  Duff,  D.  D.    Smith  (George). 

2  vols,  in  one. 

8° 

2  00 

CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


411 


JjIIU  UI  vUKCi      xylt/W  ^o<iiii  Utsiy  • 

16° 

$0 

80 

IjLIv     Ul    X-/cl  V  lvl  XJl  V  ill^ol/UllC/.        -L>I  cXliV  1C/    y  f  T  •    \A  •  J 

8° 

3 

50 

T  ifo  nf  Tnhn  Spnrlrlpr      Wfltprhiirv  LT  T£  i 

XJl  It!  Ul    ti  Willi  k;tUUUCli         n  alCI  will  J    \*' *  / 

12° 

1 

75 

Tnfp  nf  "William  Oarpv     "Rplohftr  (JoseDh^ 

16° 

1 

25 

Life  of  William  Ellis.    Ellis  (J.  E.)  Introduction 

UV    XXCIlljr  -fillUll. 

8° 

4 

20 

Memoir  of  Rev.  William  C.  Burns,  Missionary  to 

China,  English  Presbyterian  Church.  Burns 

(Islay). 

12° 

2 

50 

Memoirs  of  William  Goodell,  D.  D. ;  or,  Forty  Years 

in  the  Turkish  Empire.    Prime  (E.  D.  G.) 

12° 

2 

50 

4.  INDIA. 

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1  Uul      1  LtU  o     \JiXLLl LJ<Xl£^ll  111  lllUla*        lajlUl    ^  T T  lllldllly  • 

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12° 

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Tnrlia     T-Ticfrn*v  T^pcr*rintirm   q n rl  Tllndtrcif inn  "FTon/lorA 

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(Fannip  R  ) 

IX  CXXXXXXV^    i-Vf  1 

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50 

inu.id.il  iynbSioiid,ry  xyirt3LLury?  1001.    xjdQicy  ^x>.  xx. j 

QO 

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Land  of  the  Veda,  The.    Butler  (William). 

8° 

3 

50 

Life  by  the  Ganges.    Mullens  (Mrs.) 

16° 

80 

Missionary  Life  among  the  Villages  in  India.  Scott 

(T.  J.) 

12° 

1 

50 

Six  Years  in  India.    Humphrey  (Mrs.  E.  J.) 

16° 

1 

00 

5.  CHINA. 

\JlllLlai  cvllil  O  cl  J  Id  11.         »r  llcjr    y±.     »T  •) 

19° 

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r^hinij  n n rl  flip  f"!hinPCP      "Wpviiih  ^.T    T<  ^ 

ViJllltl  till' I    lilt,   V^lllllCoC       liCVluD   V  / 

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Chinese  Buddhism.   Edkins  (Joseph). 

8° 

4 

50 

Chinpsp     Thp      tVipir    F.fliipa'Hon      ptf  "Martin 

Vylllllv^oC,        XUCs,         Llll^ll       J-J*~l  Ll^«X  LIVJ11,        CtV^«            XVXcll  bill 

(W  A  P ) 

12° 

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50 

Fnrpifrnpr  in  nVtina   HTHp      WVipplpr  (Tl&v  S  "N"  ^ 
j.  <ji  oij^iici  in  vyiinid,  xim.      vv  iiccici  ^xvcv.       xi  .j 

1 9° 

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.TnnmPVK  in    "NTr»T*tVi    PViino     TV/TnnrvrVMa     of r>       W 1 1 1 1 o m _ 
O  Will  llc^  D  111   XiUILll    V   Illllcl,  IVXUilgUlltl,  tJLC       VV  Ullttlll- 

son  (Alexander).    2  vols. 

12° 

6 

00 

Middle  Kingdom,  The.  Williams  (S.  Wells).  2  vols. 

12° 

4 

00 

Our  Life  in  China.    Nevius  (Mrs.  Helen  S.  C.) 

16° 

1 

50 

Religions  in  China.    Edkins  (Joseph). 

8° 

2 

50 

Religions  of  China,  The.   Legge  (James). 

12° 

1 

50 

412 


CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


Kiver  of  Golden  Sand,  The.    Travels  through  China, 
including  Western  China,  and  Eastern  Thibet  to 


Burmah.    Gill  (William).    2  vols. 

8° 

$12 

00 

Social  Life  of  the  Chinese.  Doolittle  (Justus).  2  vols. 

12° 

5 

on 

6.  JAPAN. 

China  and  Japan.    Wiley  (I.  W.) 

12° 

1 

25 

Mikado's  Empire,  The.    Griffis  (W.  E.) 

8° 

4 

00 

Unbeaten  Tracks  in  Japan.  Bird  (Isabella  L.)  2  vols.  8° 

5 

00 

7.   THE  TURKISH  EMPIRE. 

A  mono  trip  Tnrk«<     TTamlin  fCvrnO 

12° 

1 

50 

Bible  YATork  in  Bible  Lands.    Bird  (Isaac). 

12° 

\ 

UU 

"Portv  ~Y"pfir«?  in  thp  Turkish  Emnirp     Arpmniri  of 

JL  \JX  1  V         JL  ^  ell  O     111      L11U     -1-  LI  1  lv  loll      1  j  111  I  J 1 1  V/.         -^'1  V^lllWll  o  Ul 

William  Goodell,  D.  D.    Prime  (E.  D.  G.) 

12° 

2 

50 

TJopoc  of  Enronpnn  Tnrkpv     Clark  f"F!  L  1 

-LVCl^V^O    V_/l     -1^111       J  '  V.  Cl  1 1     J-  11 1  IV ^  >  .          VlulU     1  1  J. 

8° 

3 

00 

Romanpp  of  An^sions     Wnrnan's  "Work  in  Asiatic 

j-i^ii itiii v_,v   yjx    1'iiooiviiOi        "  i  v^iiitiii  o     if  via.    in  ixoiuiiv 

Turkey.    West  (Maria  A.) 

12° 

2 

no 
uu 

Ton  Vpi r«  rm  tViA  T'nnVi'ratoB       A   Vpru  TTc£»fnl  T^r»nlr 

JLC1A    1  CtllO  Ull   U1C        LI  pill  a  Lt-S.      -IX     V  CI  J    "JSCIUI  -I_>U<JJtV. 

Wheeler.  (C.  H.) 

16° 

1 

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8.  AFRICA. 

Advpntnrps  of  a  TVTi  ssi  on  a  rv  fAToflfatl 

IXUVvlllUlVO    V/l     CV    lUlOOl vilul  J  •          1  -'1LI11U    J  * 

12° 

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Central  Africa     Lone-  (C  Chaillp^ 

8° 

2 

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v>xxx  lolltlxl  -tiLX  >  t;xx  I  Ixx  C/O  111   ■OUlilil   -T-lIx  xl_,<**      JLcv  V  xvx    ^  m  •) 

12° 

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50 

f^olnnpl  frorrlnn  in  C^pritT^!  Afripa  1S74 — 7Q 

VUlvllvl          Ul  VIUH   XXX    VV'XlLXcil   -*JlX1  XV^cV.    JLU  (   X     t  *J • 

8° 

8 

00 

Four  Years  in  Ashantee.    Ramseyer  and  Kuhne 

(Missionaries). 

12° 

1 

75 

Livingstone  in  South  Africa.  From  1840-1856.  Jew- 

ett  (S.  H.) 

16° 

I 

oo 

uu 

Memoirs  of  Missionary  Labors  in  Africa  and  the 

West  Indies.    Moister  (William). 

12° 

Missionary  Travels  and  Researches  in  South  Africa. 

Livingstone  (David). 

8° 

4 

50 

To  the  Central  African  Lakes  and  Back.    The  Nar- 

rative of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society's  Last 

Central  African  Expedition,  1878-80.  Thomson 

(Joseph),  in  command.    2  vols. 

12° 

6 

00 

Twelve  Months  in  Madagascar.    Mullens  (Joseph). 

12° 

1 

75 

Western  Africa.    Wilson  (J.  Leigh  ton). 

12° 

1 

25 

Zulu  Land.   Grout  (Lewis). 

12° 

1 

50 

CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


413 


9.   SOUTH  SEAS. 

Forty  Years'  Mission  Work  in  Polynesia  and  New 

Guinea.    Murray  (H.  W.)                              12°  $2  50 

Gems  from  the  Coral  Islands.    Gill  (Wm.)    2  vols.   12°  2  50 

Missionary  Among  Cannibals,  A.    A  Life  of  Rev. 

John  Hunt  in  Fiji.    Rowe  (G.  S.)                    12°  85 

Polynesian  Researches.    Ellis  (W.)    4  vols.             12°  5  00 

lO.  MEXICO. 

Our  Next-door  Neighbor.   Haven  (Gilbert).  12°     3  50 

11.   AMERICAN  INDIANS. 

Life  Among  the  Choctaws.  Benson  (Henry  C.)  12°  1  50 
Life  Among  the  Indians.  Finley  (J.  B.)  12°     1  50 

Mission  Life  Among  the  Indians  of  Oregon.  16°  50 

12.  MISCELLANEOUS,  TRAVELS,  ETC. 

Around  the  World.    Hendrix  (E.  R.)                     12°  2  00 

Chinese  in  America,  The.  Gibson  (O.)  12°  1  50 
Christian  Missions  before  the  Reformation.  Wal- 

rond  (F.  F.)                                                 16°  1  25 
From  Egypt  to  Japan.    Field  (H.  M.)                    12°  2  00 
Missionary  Concerts  for  the  Sunday-school.    A  Col- 
lection of  Declamations,  Select  Readings,  and 
Dialogues.    Smith  (W.  T.)                              16°  75 
Missionary  in  Many  Lands,  The.    House  (Erwin).   12°  1  00 
Mister  Horn  and  His  Friends ;  or,  Givers  and  Giv- 
ing.   Pearse  (Mark  Guy.)    Paper,  50c.              16°  1  00 
Non-Christian  Religious  Systems.                          18°  e  75 

Hinduism.  Williams  (Monier).  Islam.  Stobart  (J.  W.  H.) 
The  Koran.  Muir  (Sir  W.)  Buddhism.   Davids  (Rys). 

Confucianism.  Douglas  (R.  K.) 

Orient  and  its  People,  The.   Hauser  (Mrs.)             12°  1  50 

Our  Oriental  Missions.    Thomson  (Edward).  2  vols.  12°  2  00 

Round  the  World.  Kingsley  (Calvin).  2  vols.  12°  2  00 
These  for  Those:  Our  Indebtedness  to  Missions. 

Warren  (William).  16°  1  50 
To  the  East  by  the  Way  of  the  West.  Marvin 

(Bishop).                                                     12°  2  00 

White  Fields  of  France,  The.   Bonar  (Horatius).     12°  1  25 


414 


CHURCH  LIBRARIES. 


Women  of  the  Orient,  The.   Houghton  (Ross  C.)  12 
Young  Folks  of  Renfrew.    Beverle  (Mrs.  Dr.  J.  H. 
[Miss  M.  E.  Taneyhill].)  16 

YOUTH'S  LIBRARY. 

Ceylonese  Converts,  The.  Brief  Memoirs  of  Emi- 
nent Workers  in  the  Ceylon  Missions. 

Conversations  on  the  Life  of  William  Carey,  D.  D., 
Founder  of  the  Baptist  Missions  in  the  East 
Indies.    Designed  for  Youth. 

History  of  Early  Missions  in  India,  The.  To  which 
is  added  a  Memoir  of  Mrs.  Ann  Hazeltine 
Judson. 

History  of  the  Missions  in  Greenland  and  Labra- 
dor, A.  From  Carne's  Lives  of  Eminent  Mis- 
sionaries. 

Indian  Missionary  Reminiscences.  Elliott  (Chas.) 
Life  of  Christian  F.  Swartz,  The,  one  of  the  First 

Protestant  Missionaries  in  India.  Norris  (W.  H.) 
Life  of  Rev.  Henry  Martyn,  The,  Missionary  to  India. 

Norris  (W.  H.) 
Life  of  Robert  Morrison,  The,  the  First  Protestant 

Missionary  to  China.    Alcott  (Wm.  A.) 
Missionary  Anecdotes.  16 
Missionary  Book  for  the  Young.    A  First  Book  on 

Missions. 

Missionary  Narrative  of  the  Triumphs  of  Grace,  A, 
as  Seen  in  the  Conversion  of  Kafirs,  Hotten- 
tots, Fingoes,  and  Other  Natives  in  South  Africa. 
Young  (Samuel),  twelve  years  a  Missionary  in 
that  Country. 

Missionary  Teacher,  The.  A  Memoir  arid  Early 
History  of  the  Oregon  Mission.    Mudge  (Z.  A.) 

Mission  Life  Among  the  Indians  of  Oregon. 

New  Zealanders,  The.  Abridged  from  the  Library 
of  Entertaining  Knowledge.    Smith  (Daniel). 

Notices  of  Foochow  and  Other  Ports  of  China, 
with  Reference  to  Missionary  Operations. 

South  Sea  Missions.    No.  1.  Island  of  Rurutu. 

Tortola;  or,  The  Native  Missionary  of  the  West 
India  Islands. 


CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


415 


MISSIONARY  TRACTS. 

How  Much,  and  How.  A  Treatise  on  Systematic 
Giving.  A  Valuable  Tract.  Stevens  (Abel). 
Pp.  16. 

Japanese  Door,  The.    Fowler  (C.  H.) 

Message,  The.    Fowler  (C.  H.)    Pp.  52. 

Spirit  of  the  Gospel.  Christ  Necessary.  Our  Business  and 
"Home  Heathen."  Cost.  Our  Field  is  Larger  than 
Our  Availability.  Success.  The  Triumph  in  Our  Day. 
Protestantism  and  Romanism.    How  to  Raise  the  Money. 

Missionary  Office  Tract,  No.  3.    Pp.  51. 

Our  Missionary  Society.  What  is  it  ?  "What  is  its 
Field  ?  Is  it  Expensive  ?  Do  Missions  Pay  ? 
Will  we  Succeed  ?  Results.  Pveid  (J.  M.)  Pp.  20. 

Speedy  Christianization  of  the  World.  A  Sketch  of 
the  Missionary  Enterprise  and  its  Agencies. 
Butler  (William).    Pp.  20. 

Support  of  Missions,  The.  How  the  Missionary  So- 
ciety is  Administered.  Instructions  of  the  Dis- 
cipline on  Missions :  Elements  of  Power  of  the 
Plan.    Harris  (Bishop).    Pp.  36. 

[All  the  above  series  of  Tracts  may  be  had  at  the  rate  of 
one  cent  for  30  pages.] 

Appeal  on  Behalf  of  Missions,  An.  Tract-book 

Series.    Edwards  (W.  S.)  $0  05 

Appeal  to  Christian  Workers  of  All  Denominations, 
etc.,  An.  Pocket  Series,  No.  83.  Mahan  (Asa), 
Lowrey  (A.),  Steele  (Daniel),  and  Swan  (Freder- 
ick G.)    Single,  $c.    Ten  copies.  21 

Conversion  of  Padre  Rojana,  a  Mexican  Priest.  Car- 
ter (Thomas).  3 

Developing  the  Missionary  Spirit  in  Sunday-schools. 

Murdock  (J.  W.)  2 

Go  or  Die.    Kelley  (Dr.)  15 

Go  or  Send.  A  Plea  for  Missions.  Prize  Essay. 
Published  by  Order  of  the  Board  of  Missions 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South.  Hay- 
good  (A.  G.)  20 

Mexico:  The  Past  and  Present  of  the  Country:  Its 

Resources  and  Prospects.    Ellinwood  (F.  F.)  10 

Missionary  Office  Leaflets,  Nos.  1-5.  Gratuitous. 


416 


CATALOGUE  OF  BOOKS. 


Missionary  Outline  Series — China.  Extent,  History, 
Population,  Industries,  and  Religions  of  China, 
and  Christian  Missions  therein.  Gracey  (J.  T.) 
Maps  showing  Location  of  Missions  of  all  So- 
cieties. $0  25 

Missions.   An  Essay.    Anderson  (Dr.),  Missionary 

to  Spain.  15 

Mission  Work.    Thrall  (H.  S.)  15 

Principles  and  Facts  of  Missions,  The.  Bond  (B.  W.)  15 

Thoughts  on  Missions;  or,  the  Principles,  Facts, 
and  Obligations  of  Christian  Missions.  Cun- 
nyngham  (Dr.)  15 

World  of  Missions,  The.  A  General  Review  of  the 
Results  of  Protestant  Missions  in  1879.  Chau- 
tauqua Text-book,  No.  30.    Carroll  (H.  K.)  10 

Fifty-four  Four-paged  Tracts,  in  one  Package,  suita- 
ble for  distribution  in  Sunday-schools.  15 
The  following  are  the  titles  of  the  Tracts,  viz. : 

1.  Missionary  First-fruits.      17.  Orphans  in  the  East. 

2.  The  Lord's-day  in  a        18.  Where  shall  I  Go  Last  of  All? 

Heathen  Land.  19.  Hadara. 

'   3.  Mongolian  Boy.  20.  Missionary  Ship. 

4.  Hindu  and  the  Tracts.  21.  Trust  in  God. 

5.  Self-torture.  22.  Hindu  School-girls. 

6.  New  Zealand.  23.  Treading  the  Fire. 

7.  Heathens  Know  not  the  24.  Juggernaut. 

Good  God.  25.  Wild  Choop. 

8.  Karen  Converts.  26.  Happy  Hottentot. 

9.  Cherokee  Indian.  27.  All  Given  Up  for  Christ 

10.  Greenlanders.  28.  New  Zealand  Girl. 

11.  Siberian  Leper.  29.  Mystery  Man. 

12.  Tupe  of  Raratonga.  30.  Old  Saul. 

13.  Wild  Men  of  the  Jungle.    31.  Blind  Bartimeus. 

14.  Little  Cornelia.  32.  Sandwich  Islander. 

15.  Heathen  Prayers.  33.  Hook-swinging. 

16.  African  Girl.  84.  Andres  Stoffles,  etc. 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


Abbott,  E.  A  363 

Abbott,  Jacob  306,  307,  319,  377,  386 

389,  404 

Abbott,  Jacob,  and  John  S.  C   290 

Abbott,  John  S.  C  287,  302,  319,  327 

349,  355,  368 

Abbott,  Lyman  327,  335,  360 

Abclous,  L  400 

Adams,  Charles. ..305,  309,  334,  342,  343, 
£  352,  358,  366,  401,  402 

Adams,  Emily  :  380 

Adams,  H.  G   398 

Adams,  John  277 

Adams,  Neh  278,  284,  293,  295,  299 

303,  305,  311,  312,  317,  397 

Adams,  R.  C   360 

Adams,  Sarah  B  280 

Adams,  W.  H.  D  294,  326,  379 

Adams,  Wm   391 

Addison,  Joseph  403 

vEsop  277 

Agassiz,  L.  C,  and  A   378 

Agassiz,  L  319,  336 

Aguilar,  Grace  306,  330,  355,  395,  401 

Aikin,  John   313 

Akers,  Peter  289 

Alcott,  Louisa  M  345,  402 

Alden,  Mrs.  G.  R.  [Pansy]  287,  305,  308 
312,  317,  318,  319,  321,  323,  325,  332 
335,  336,  337,  344,  352,  354,  356,  357 
358,  363,  366,  371,  375,  380,  388,  389 
391,  392,  394,  399,  400,  407 
Alden.Joseph,  300,  323,  344,  387,  389,  391 

Alden,  Mariam  286 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey  408 

Alexander,  W.  L  299,  401 

Allen,  Fred.  H  302,  304,  366 

Allen,  Zach   381 

Amicis,  Edmondo  De  330, 355,  381 

A  ndersen,  Hans  C   402 

Anderson,  Mrs.  Galusha   383 

Anderson,  Jas   337 

Anderson-Maskcl,  Mrs.  JST.  E   317 

Anderson,  R.  B   359 

Andrews,  H.  P  331 

Anncsley,  Miss   343 

Armitage,  Ella  8  297 

Armstrong,  Geo.  D  375 

Arnold,  Arthur   .  392 

Arnold,  Frederick   394 

Arnold,  Isaac  N   341 

Arnold,  Thps   ....  289 

Arthur,  William  283,  362,  386,  392 

Asbury,  F  284,  325 

Atkinson,  J  302,  318,  346 

Atkinson,  I.  W  280,  380 

Atwater,  E.  E  376 

Awdry,  F   383 

Aytoun,  Wm.  E  291,  339 


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Babcock,  Sarah  A  326,  335 

Bacon,  Francis  402 

Bacon,  Leonard  W  313 

Bailey,  L  290 

Bailey,  Una  Locke  308 

Baillie,  John  343 

Bain,  Alex.. ..309,  310,  350,  352,  355,  378 

Bainbridge,  Wm.  F   406 

Baird,  R   329 

Baker,  Ella  M   301 

Baker,  Mrs.  II.  W   294 

Baker,  O.  C  307,  339 

Baker,  S  302 

Baker,  Sarah   299 

Baker,  S.  W  334,  358 

Bake  well,  John  277 

Bakewell,  Mrs.  J   355 

Balch,  Wm.  S   364 

Baldwin,  J.  I)  281,  369 

Baldwin,  W.  C   278 

Ball,  R.  S   284 

Ballantinc,  E   299 

Ballard,  A.  C   315 

Ballard,  Julia  P  294,  333 

Ballou,  Maturin  M   364 

Bancroft,  Aaron  342 

Bancroft,  Geo  329,  344 

Banvard,  Jos  341,  365,  366,  381 

Bangs,  Nathan  318,  351 

Barbauld,  Mrs.  A.  L   313 

Barnes,  A   313 

Barr,  Jno   288 

Barrett,  Wm   400 

Barrows,  L.  D  330,  370 

Barth,  C   329 

Barth,  Henry   308 

Bartlett,  S.  C   318 

Bartlett,  David  W   342 

Barwell,  Mrs   319 

Bascom,  J   377 

Bass,  E.  C   369 

Bates,  Clara  D   325 

Bates,  Elizabeth  384,  392 

Bates,  L   389 

Bates,  W.  H   357 

Baxter,  Richard  372,  376 

Beach,  Rebecca  G   279 

Beaudry,  Louis  N   382 

Beaumont,  Jos   388 

Beckmore,  A.  S   393 

Beckwith,  E.  L   316 

Beecher,  H.  W  394,  403 

Beecher,  Mrs.  H.  W   279 

Beecher,  W.  J   315 

Beers,  E.  L   279 

Beesley,  (Prof.)   358 

Beeslv,  Mrs   384 

Behafrell,  T.  G   289 

Belisle,  D.  W   280 


417 


418 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


PAGE. 

Bell,  CMS.  D   326 

Benham,  W   388 

Bennett,  Mrs.  M.  A   370 

Bennett,  W.  W   351 

Benning,  H  321,  358 

Benson,  H.  C   298 

Benson,  Joseph  302,  310 

Benton,  T.  H   287 

Bfjrry,  Mrs.  M.  E  294,  295 

Berth  el,  Elie   369 

Besant,  Walter   357 

Bickersteth,  E.  H  346,  382,  403 

Bierbowcr,  Austin   365 

Binney,  Amos  303,  390 

Binney,  T   318 

Bireh,  S   310 

Bird,  Isaac   289 

Bird,  Isabella  L   394 

Birks,  T.  R   287 

Biscoe,  Ellen  L  320,  337 

Bishop,  Nathaniel  II  317,  395 

Bissell,  Mary  L   373 

Bixby,  J.  T   380 

Blackburn,  Wm.  M....277,  282,  319,  328 
389,  394 

Blackie,  J.  S   378 

Blaikie,  Wm.  G  332,  364 

Blake,  E.  Vale   282 

Blanchard,  Leone   393 

Blant,  Lucian   277 

Blasius.  Wm   384 

Blatch,  W   327 

Blebv,  Henrv   374 

Bledsoe,  A.  T   390 

Bloomfield.  J.  K   320 

Boardman,  G.  D   386 

Boardman,  W.  E   327 

Boardman,  Mrs.  W.  E   291 

Bogart,  W.  H   306 

Bonar,  Andrew  A   349 

Bonar,  Horatius...288,  313,  316,  355,  358 
372,  381 

Booth.  Mary  L   395 

Boswell,  James   343 

Bourdillon,  Francis   363 

Bourne,  II.  R.  F   314 

Bo  wen,  C.  E  332,  335 

Bowes,  G.  S   333 

Bowman,  Anna  286,  337 

Bowne,  B.  P  326,  389 

Boyd,  Mrs.  E.  E   392 

Boyd,  Mary   397 

Boyesen,  H.  H   359 

Boyle,  G.  D   326 

Brackett,  Anna  C  367 

Brand,  John   367 

Bray,  Mrs.  R.  M   365 

Bray  man,  J.  G   306 

Brayman,  James  0   391 

Bridgman,  Thos   280 

Brightwell,  C.  L  363 

Brine,  Mrs.  Mary  D   287 

Bristol,  Mrs.  M.  C   279 

Brodribb,  \V.  J   358 

Brook,  Sarah    407 

Brooke,  S   344 

Brooke,  Stopford  A  299,  302,  390 

Brooks,  Phillips  334,  339,  379 

Brown,  E.  E  361,  407 


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Brown,  James   342 

Brown,  J.  Baldwin  308,  330,  352 

Brown,  John   408 

Brown,  S.  E   31 8 

Brown,  Theron  290,  397 

Brugsch,  Henry   394 

Brunson,  Alfred  282,  399 

Bryant,  Wm.  Cullen  331,  340,  359 

Buck,  D.  D   397 

Buckle,  H.  T   328 

Buckley,  A.  B  313,  369 

Buckley,  C.  H.  A   366 

Buckley,  J.  M   300 

Bulfinch,  Thomas  406 

Bulmer,  Agnes   355 

Bunce,  Oliver  B..  374 

Bungener,  L.  L.  F...292,  328,  346,  371,  392 

Bunsen,  C.  J  -   289 

Bunting,  T.  P  342 

Bunyan,  J  *  330,  365 

Burckhardt,  Jacob   406 

Burke,  S.  J   316 

Burnet.  G   294 

Burnett,  P.  H   294 

Burr,  E.  F  307,  387,  395 

Burrougbs,  John  290,  346,  397 

Burt,  N-.  C   338 

Burton,  Mrs.  Bella  F...  403 

Burton,  Richard  F   337 

Butcher,  S.  H  407 

Butler,  Jos...  281 

Butler,  W.  F   399 

Butler,  Wm  338 

Butterworth,  Hcztkiah  387,  404 

Cairns,  John   394 

Calder,  F   312 

Calderwood,  H   372 

Caldwell,  M   301 

Campbell,  Lewis   302 

Campbell.  S.  M   277 

Capes,  W.  W   302 

Capron,  Mary  J  320,  349 

Carey,  Daniel   301 

Carleton,  W   314 

Carlyle,  Thomas  ..289,  305,  309,  317,  343 
372,  382 

Carpenter,  J.  E   341 

Carroll,  A   381 

Carroll,  Lewis  406,  408 

Carrothers,  Julia  D   387 

Carter,  Thomas..  279,  317,  327 

Cartwright,  P  294,  315 

Carvosso,  Wm   295 

Carv,  Alice   365 

Cary,  Alice  and  Phoebe  285,  367 

Can^,  Phoebe   366 

Caton,  J.  D   386 

Cave,  Harriet   384 

Chadwick,  G.  A   299 

Chaffin,  J.  W   286 

Chalmers,  T  '.   378 

Chamberlain,  P.B  353,  371 

Chamberlayne,  1   376 

Chambers,  W   352 

Champlin,  J.  P   403 

Champney,  Lizzie  W   311 

Channing,  Barbara  H   387 

Chapin,  J.  H   305 


INDEX  OF 


PAGE. 

Chapin,  Wm   332 

Chaplin,  Jer  298,  350 

Chaplin,  J.  and  J.  D   341 

Chapman,  Helen  C   390 

Charles,  Mrs.  A   377 

Charlesworth.  Maria  L  293,  298,  311 

352,  360 

Chaucer,  Geoffry   3(37 

Chellis,  Mary  D  293,  321,  3G2,  382 

Cheney,  Mrs.  E.  D   320 

Child,  *G.C  287 

Child,  Lydia  M  346 

Choules,  John  0   403 

Christlieb,  Theodore  334,  334,  408 

Christopher,  S.  W   312 

ChOfthill,  E.  K   362 

Clark,  Alex  321,  386 

Clark,  Davis  W.  ...306,  315,  325,  339,  347 
350,  351,  378 

Clark,  Edson  L  335,  371 

Clark,  Mrs.  H.  S   348 

Clark,  Mrs.  R.  S.  Graham   403 

Chirk,  RufUfl  N   402 

Clark,  Thomas  M   369 

Clarke,  Adam..302,  304,  312,  368,  393,  398 

Clarke,  G.  W   299 

Clarke,  James  Freeman  339,  378,  389 

Clarke,  Samuel  350,  377 

Clarke,  Mrs.  S.  H   389 

Clement,  Clara  E  283,  324,  328,  362 

Clement,  F   359 

Clfldd,  E   297 

Coan,  Titus   277 

Coates,  H.T   298 

Cobden,  Paul  307,  344 

Cocker,  B.  F   301 

Codville,  Win   303 

Coffin,  C.  C  292,  383 

Coke,  Thomas   368 

Coles,  Abraham  400 

Coles,  Geo  303,  351 

Coley,  Samuel   335 

Collyer,  Robert   357 

Colman,  Julia   290 

Colter,  Mrs.  J.  J  361,  373 

Col  ton,  C.  C   337 

Conder,  C.  R  357 

Conington,  Jno  278 

Conklin,  Mrs.  N  310 

Converse,  C.  C   377 

Conway,  M.  D   294 

Comvell,  R.  H   286 

Cook,  John  E   384 

Cook,  Jos...290,  326,  337,  348,  361, 381,  392 

Cooke,  Carrie  Adelaide  318,  408 

Cookman,  G.  C   304 

Cooper,  J.  F   304 

Cordery,  B.  M   337 

Corderoy,  Edward   315 

Cousin,  Victor   339 

Covell,  C  287 

Cowper,  William   304 

Cox,  G.  W  305,  329,  385,  388 

cox,  Samuel  306 

Cozzens,  S.  W  391 

Crafts,  W.  F  392,  408 

Crafts,  Mrs.  W.  F   361 

Craighead,  J.  G  377 

Craik,  Geo.  L   370 


AUTHORS.  419 


PAGE. 

Crampton,  G.  E.  E   380 

Crane,  J.  L   394 

Crane,  J.  Townley..283,  330,  350, 367, 373 

Creighton,  M   327 

Cricnton,  Andrew   327 

Crooks,  Geo.  R   349 

Cross,  Joseph  407 

Cruder),  Alexander   305 

Crum,  G.  C   286 

Cubitt,  G   346 

Culross,  Jas   326 

Culver,  Newell  351 

Gumming,  C.  F.  Gordon   284 

Gumming,  J  320 

Cummings,  M.  J  345,  394 

Cumnock,  R.  M  299 

Curry,  Daniel  317,  366 

Curtis,  Geo.  W  358,  368 

Cutler,  Helen  R   336 

Cuyler,  T.  L  295,  367,  390 

Daiixe,  E   313 

Dana,  Chas.  A   332 

Dana,  J.J   348 

Dana,  R.  H  392,  394 

Daniels,  W.  II  389 

Dart,  Mary   361 

Darton,  J.  M   326 

D'Aubigne,  J.  II...:.   329 

Davenport,  W.  II   378 

Davidson,  J.  M   310 

Davie,  H   348 

Davics,  R.  N   336 

Davis,  Mrs.  C.  E.  K  345,  353,  363 

Davis,  Geo.  E   408 

Davis,  L.  A   321 

Davis,  L.  D  335,  341 

Dawson,  J.  W   383 

Day,  G.  T   278 

Day,  Thos   376 

Deems,  C.  F   330 

De  Forest,  Julia  B   379 

Dempster,  John   339 

Denison,  E.  B  284 

Denton,  W   303 

Depping,  G   291 

De  Puy,  W.  H  351,  391 

De  Quincey,  T  281,  290,  303,  310,  312 

327,  344,  357 

Derby,  Edw.  (Lord)   331 

De  Vere,  M.  S  373,  402 

Dicey,  Edw   358 

Dick,  Thos  300,  333,  372,  403 

Dickens,  Chas  297,  365 

Dickson,  A   279 

Diman,  J.  Lewis  389,  407 

Disosway,  Miss  E.  T   399 

Disraeli,  Isaac   406 

Doane,  N  334 

Dods,  Marcus   334 

Dolbear,  A.  E   389 

Dole,  Nathan  Haskell   404 

Donkersley,  R  311,  313 

Doran,  Dr   337 

Dorchester,  D  304,  369 

Doremus,  S.  D   322 

Dorr,  Julia  C.  R   293 

Doudney,  Sarah   383 

Dowden,  E   344 


420 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


PAGE. 

Drake,  Samuel  A  325,  406 

Drinkwater,  Jennie  M  317,  359,  301 

375,  389 

Drummond,  Mrs   310 

Du  Chaillu,  Paul  B  338 

Duffey,  Mrs.  E.  B   337 

Dulles,  J.  W   373 

Dundas,  Mrs   403 

Dunn,  Lewis  R  281,  318,  330,  352 

Dunning,  Mrs.  A.  X.  ..304,  306,  321,  340 
377,  383,  393,  397 

Duppa,  R   371 

Durbin,  John  P   359 

Eastman,  Julia  A.  ...337,  374,  377,  379 
384,  405 

Eastwood,  Frances  319,  348 

Eaton,  H.  M   335 

Eddv,  D.  C   396 

Edgar,  J.  G  292,  316,  327,  378 

Edge  worth,  Maria   408 

Edkins,  Joseph   372 

Edmondson,  J  325,  378 

Edson,  N.  1   380 

Edwards,  Mrs.  C.  M  371,  380 

Edwards,  Jonathan   402 

Eggleston,  Edward   314 

Eggleston,  Geo.  C  289,  332 

Egleston,  N.  H  396 

Ellenwood,  March   367 

Ellet,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  F   366 

Elliott,  Chas  287,  341,  374 

Elliott,  Samuel   367 

Ellis,  Wm   391 

Emerson,  R.  W  303,  313,  340 

Emorv,  John  307,  312 

Ernorv,  Robert   310 

English,  Maria   325 

Erickson,  D.  S   395 

Eskins,  J   298 

Etheridge,  J.  W  302,  &50 

Everett,  James  396,  397 

Ewbanks,  T   293 

Fairbairn,  Patrick   370 

Fancher,  E.  L   339 

Farman,  Ella  281,  319,  321,  345 

Farrar,  F.  W...299,  311,  312,  314,  315,  334 
341,  376,  378,  380,  388,  401 

Farrell,  Jos   339 

Far,  Miss  Amy   356 

Fell,  Archie..."  282,  356,  366 

Fenelon,  Archbishop  277,  382 

Ferris,  Geo.  T   322 

Fetridgc,  W.  P   323 

Feudge,  Fanny  R   329 

Ffirth,  John   341 

Field,  H.  M   318 

Field,  Marie  E   400 

Fields,  James  T  395,  403.  406,  408 

Findlav,  Samuel   371 

Finfey,  J.  B  315,  340,  369,  381 

Finley,  Martha  Farquharson... 295,  310 

Fish,  Henrv  C...  349,  370 

Fisher,  Geo*.  P  309,  329 

Fisk,  Wilbur   294 

Fiske,  John   356 

Fleming,  Ja*  326 


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Fletcher,  John  282,  300,  316 

Fleury,  Claude   335 

Floy,  James  360,  378 

Follen,  Mrs.  E.  L  290,  398 

Folsom,  A.  P.  and  M.  T   325 

Fontaine,  Edw   332 

Foote,  A.  L.  R   301 

Forrest,  Neil  331,  335 

Forrester,    Francis    [See  Wise, 

Daniel]   330 

Foster,  Elon   306 

Foster,  R.  S  287,  294,  300 

Fowler,  C.  H   302 

Fox,  John   277 

Foxcroft,  Frank   372 

Fraser,  Donald   326 

Freeman,  E.  A   329 

Freeman,  J.  M  287,  288,  324 

French.  H.  W   319 

Froude,  J.  A   328 

Fuller,  E.  Q  375 

Fyffe,  C.  A   329 

Gaddis,  M.  P  316,  376,  397 

Gairdner,  Jas   332 

Galton,  F   311 

Gardiner,  S.  R   370 

Gardner,  Celia  E   312 

Gardner,  Mrs.  H.  C  307,  315,  320,  337 

338,  349,  374 

Garnett,  Richard  358 

Garrett,  R.  and  A   283 

Gatty,  Mrs.  Alfred  279,  285,  363 

Gaylord,  Glance  319 

Geike,  J.  C   277 

Geikie,  C   341 

Geikie,  J   322 

Geldart,  Mrs.  Thomas   349 

George,  A.  C  304,  376,  380 

George,  N.  D   395 

Gerard,  J  344 

Gere,  J   298 

Gibbon,  Edward  289,  328,  385 

Gibeme,  Agnes  309,  386,  405,  408 

Gibson,  J.  M  278,  317 

Gifford.  E.  H   320 

Gill,  Wm  318,  319 

Gillett,  E.  H  281,  311,  329,  342 

Gilman,  Arthur  337 

Gilmorc,  E   303 

Gilmore,  J.  H   307 

Gladden,  Wash   346 

Gladstone,  W.  E  336,  344,  3-52 

Gleig,  G.  R  327,  383 

Goldsmith.  Oliver   403 

Goodale.  E.  and  D.  R  279,  282 

Goode,  Wm.  H   362 

Goss,  C.  C   351 

Gosse,  P.  L   313 

Goulburn,  E.  M.  ..333,  360,  370,  379,  391 

Gould,  Edw.  S   321 

Gould,  Jeanie  T   348 

Graham,  Ennis   389 

Graham,  Marv   319 

Graham,  Mrs.  S.  R   362 

Grav,  Asa   357 

Gray,  E.  C   400 

Gray,  Geo.  Z  298,  305 

Gray,  J.  Comper  288,  289,  392 


INDEX  OF  A  UTHORS. 


421 


PAGE. 

Greeley,  Horace  342 

Green,  G.  W   327 

Green,  J.  R  379,  384 

Greenough,  A.  J   292 

Gregg,  S   334 

Gregory,  D.  S   399 

Griffin,  G.  W*  38G 

Griffis,  W.  E   852 

Griffith.  M.  E  292,  339 

Grimed  J.  Stanley  356 

Groser,  W.  II   399 

Grout,  Lewis  405 

Grove,  Geo  329 

Guernsey,  A.  H  294 

Guernsey,  Lucy  E   361 

Guild,  Curtis   277 

Guizot,  F  328,  346,  349,  376 

Gurney,  E.  P   318 

Guthrie,  Thos  302,  321,  322,  317,  361 

362,  376,  382,  386,  398,  407 

IlACKETT,  H.  B   333 

Hagcnback,  K  328 

Hale,  E.  E   314 

Hall,  C.  F   283 

Hall,  G.  S   284 

Hall,  John  314,  320,  369,  393,  403 

Hallam,  Henry  385,  402 

Halsey,  L  J  344,  345 

Halstead,  Wm.  R   318 

Hamill,  S.  S   310 

Hamilton,  James   375 

Hamilton,  Kate  W  298,  322,  331,  360 

395,  398 

Hamilton,  R.  Winter  323,  378 

Hamlin,  Cvrus   280 

Hamline,  Mrs.  M   378 

Hanna,  Wm   299 

Hannah,  John   403 

Hanks,  S.  W   305 

Hare,  E   352 

Harman,  H.  M   333 

Harrington,  Adelaide  L  406 

Harris,  John   347 

Harris,  W.  L   339 

Harrison,  C.  C  401 

Harrison,  H.  W   286 

Harrison,  James  A  329,  382 

Harsha,  David  A   361 

Hartley,  C.  B   342 

Hartley,  Cecil   387 

Hase,  K   328 

Hassaurek,  F   317 

Hathaway,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  N  334,  336 

Haven,  Mrs.  A.  B  339,  362,  366 

Haven,  E.  0  365,  404 

Haven,  Gilbert  357,  362,  379,  388 

Haven,  Marion   335 

Havergal,  Frances  Ridley ..294,  317,  337 
341,  345,  346,  350,  352,  355,  374,  375 

Haweis,  H.  R   356 

Hawley,  B  351,  379 

Hawthorne,  N  280,  308,  311,  362,  388 

393,  401 

Hay,  John   295 

Haydn,  Joseph   307 

Hayes,  Isaac  1  338,  361 

Haygood,  A.  G   361 

Hazelton,  Mabel   285 


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Head,  Nelson   306 

Headley,  J.  T  356,  375,  397 

Headley,  P.  C  334  ,  342,  343,  401 

Helps,  Arthur   382 

Hendrick,  A.  C  302 

Henkle,  M.  M   286 

Henry,  Mrs.  S.  M.  1  278,  366,  396 

Henry,  W.  J   339 

Hensel,  Sebastian   350 

Herbert,  Henry  W  325,  343 

Herman,  Mrs   298 

Hibbard,  F.  G  285,  323,  363,  372 

Higginson,  T.  W  280,  329 

Hildebrandt,  C   400 

Hildeburn,  Mary  J  305,  318 

Hildrcth,  S.  P  359,  381 

Hill,  G.  C   280 

Hill,  Thomas   393 

Hillard,  Geo.  S   380 

Hingham,  Marv  R  361,  302 

Hobart,  Mrs.  C  295 

Hodder,  Edwin  291,  330 

Hodgson,  Francis  351,  357 

Hoffman,  Franz   324 

Holdich,  Jos  343,  398 

Holland,  J.  G  290,  337 

Holliday,  F.  C  288,  399 

Holmes,  O.  W  310,  322,  366,  381 

Holt,  Emily  S  284,  335,  373,  398 

Holt,  G.  H   343 

Holt,  M.  A  315,  320 

Hood,  E.  Paxton   326 

Hopkins,  A.  A  336,  380 

Hopkins,  E   299 

Hopkins,  Geo   371 

Hopkins,  Mark  339,  368,  384 

Hoppin,  Benj   322 

Hoppin,  James  M   360 

Home,  Rev.  H   288 

Hosmer,  Margaret  340,  345,  395 

Houghton,  Louise  S   314 

Houghton,  R.  C  284,  375,  401 

Houghton,  W   402 

House,  E  331,  352,  377,  381,  387 

Hoven,  Ernest   357 

Howard,  O.  0   358 

Howells,  W.  D  346,  395 

Howitt,  Mary   293 

Hubner,  Chas.  W   347 

Hueffer,  Francis   322 

Hughes,  Margie  S   282 

Hughes,  Thomas  347,  392,  393 

Hughey,  G.  W   367 

Hume,  David  328,  385 

Humphrev,  Mrs.  E.  J  319,  380 

Hunt,  C.  H   342 

Huntington,  Fave  356,  389,  390 

Huntington,  F.  D   299 

Hurst,  Catherine  E  281,  310,  370,  372 

Hurst,  John  F  288,  301,  340,  348,  371 

Huxley,  T.  H   377 

Inglts,  J   375 

Ingraham,  J.  H  365,  309,  391 

Irving,  W  279,  284,  291,  292,  305,  321 

334,  337,  340,  341,  342,  347,  876,  380 
382,  393,  397,  401 

Jackson,  G.  A   309 


422 


INDEX  OF  A  UTHORS. 


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Jackson,  Sheldon   279 

Jackson,  T  351,  397,  398 

James,  J.  A  405 

Jameson,  Anna  ...295,  339,  340,  345,  376 
381,  386 

Janes,  Edwin  L  284,  364,  398  j 

Janes.  E.  S   302  ! 

Janvier,  E.  N   278  | 

Jay,  \Ym   403 

Jebb.  R.  C  344 

Jenkins,  Edw   307 

Jenkins,  J.  S   341 

Jenness,  Theodora  R  394 

Jervis,  W.  H   38-5 

Jessnp,  H.  H  388,  401 

Jeter.  J.  B   280 

Jewett,  Sarah  0  307,  360,  366  I 

Jewett,  S.  A.  YV   278  | 

Jones.  C.  H  341,  343,  347 

Johnson,  A.  H   359 

Johnson,  E.  A  323,  345 

Johnson,  Franklin  408 

Johnson,  Helen  K  373,  389 

Johnson,  Joseph   345 

Johnson,  M.  O   294 

Johnson,  Rossiter    293 

Johnson,  Samuel   336 

Johnston,  H.  A   393 

Jones,  Harrv  364 

Jowett,  B.  .."   307 

Judd,  Carrie  F   368 

Kane.  E.  K   378 

Keary,  A  356,  403 

Keith.  Alex  307,  313,  338 

Kelley,  Mrs.  E.  I)   304 

Kempis.  Thomas  a   333 

Kendall,  Mrs.  E.  D  336,  382 

Kennedy,  Grace   281 

Kennedy,  YV.  S   407 

Kenni'wav,  C.  C  304 

Kevs,  C.  C.   302 

Kidder,  D.  P  300,-331,  355,  368 

KUlen,  J.  M   325 

King,  (Lord)   369 

Kingsbury.  O.  A   359 

Kingsley,  Calvin  372,  374 

Kingsley,  Charles  320,  326,  333,  339 

347,  408 

Kingston,  W.  H.  G  295,  316,  325,  344 

364,  371,  379,  3%,  405 

Kinmont,  Eleanor   332 

Kinmont,  Mrs.  Mary   278 

Kirk,  John   356 

Kirkland,  Miss  E.  S   379 

Kitto,  J  337,  338 

Knight,  Chas  323,  328 

Knowles,  D.  C   340 

Knox,  C.  E   334 

Knox,  L.  L  312,  371 

Knox,  Thos.  W   332 

Krummacher,  F.  YV  306 


Lackland.  Thomas  331 

Lacombe,  M.  P   283 

Lar-roix,  Mrs.  C.  A   322 

Lacroix,  J.  P  300,  369,  383,  400 

Lalor,  J.  J  341,  342 

Lamartine,  Alphonse  de   289 


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Lamb,  Charles  and  Mary   388 

Lamson,  Mary  S   340 

Lancaster,  John   349 

Landis,  R.  YV   333 

Lang,  A   407 

Langhorne,  John  and  William  366 

Larcom,  Lucy  293,  366 

Larned,  Augusta  330,  331,  360,  388 

Larrabee,  YVm.  C  284,  398 

Larsen,  Carl   340 

Lathbury,  Mary  A   316 

Lathrop,  Jos   313 

Latimer.  Faith   317 

Lawrence,  Annie  M   360 

Lawrence,  Mrs.  M.  YV   343 

Lawrence,  W.  R   341 

Lawrie,  J.  M  325 

Lawry,  YV   392 

Layard,  A.  H   358 

Leavitt,  J.  M   314 

Lecky.  W.  E.  H   328 

Lee,  Man-  B   346 

Lee,  Samuel   358 

Lees,  F.  R   389 

Legge,  Jas  298,  303,  372 

Leland,  Chas.  G   357 

Leonowens,  Mrs.  Anna  H  311,  373 

Le  Row,  Caroline  B   407 

Leslie,  Emma  280,  285.  295,  303,  310,  316 
319,  340,  348.  364.  370,  370,  387,  397 
Leslie,  Mrs.  Madeline..331,  340,  359,  402 

Levin,  S.  P   320 

Lewis,  C.  T   385 

Lewis,  David   387 

Lewis,  W.  G.  YV  340 

Liddell,  H.  G  289,  385 

Liefde,  I.  de   380 

Lockhart,  J.  G  342 

Lodge,  H.  C  285,  311,  379 

Long,  J   406 

Longfellow,  Henry  VY  301,  308,  320 

333,  337,  367 

Loomis,  H   321 

Lord.  YVillis,   290 

Lorimer,  John  G   327 

Loring,  Laurie  298,  383 

Lorraine,  A.  M  325,  378 

Lossing.  Benson  J   306 

Lowell,  J.  R  280,  315,  367 

Lowrey,  Asbury   368 

Lubbock.  Sir  John   369 

Luckey,  S  :   346 

Lummel,  E   357 

Lyell,  Chas  369,  386 

Macaulay,  T.  B  279,  289,  312,  328 

MacDonald,  Geo  282,  296,  311,  397 

Macduff,  J.  R  292,  293,  316,  350,  370 

MacGregor,  J   373 

Maekay,  Mrs   314 

Mackenzie,  Robert   358 

Maclaren,  A   342 

Maclear,  G.  F  282.  360 

Macleod.  Alex  301,  401 

Macleod.  Norman    321 

Macmillan,  Husrh   288 

Macpb-rson,  J   308 

Macquoid,  K.  S   392 

Macquoid,  Thos.  and  Katharine...  408 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


423 


PAGE. 

Magnusson,  Erik   358 

Magruder,  W.  H.  N   405 

Mahaffy,  J.   302,  329 

Mallock,  W.  H   408 

Mann,  Horace  390,  391 

Manning,  Anna   335 

March,  Anna   360 

Marlay,  J.  F   355 

Marsh,  Dwight  W   389 

Marsh,  Katharine  M   356 

Marsh,  Mrs   329 

Marshall,  Beatrice   314 

Marshall,  Emma  ..287,  309,  344,  349,  383 

396 

Marston,  L   373 

Martin,  Francis  281 

Martin,  Mrs.  M.  F  280,  374 

Martin,  Theo   359 

Martineau,  Harriet   332 

Martin,  W.  A.  P   298 

Martvn,  W   365 

Mason,  D   307 

Mason,  J   378 

Mather,  Mrs.  Sarah  A  404 

Matlack,  L.  C   282 

Mathews,  J.  McD   340 

Mathews,  Joanna   293 

Mathews,  Julia  A  287 

Mathews,  Margaret  H   406 

Matthews,  Wm   361 

Mattison,  H   333 

Maurice.  F.  D  372,  395 

Mauris,  M   317 

Maury,  Ann  349 

Mav,  Carrie  L   408 

Mayhew,  H  292,  364,  402,  403 

McCabe,  L.  D   343 

McCarty,  J.  H  290,  333 

McClintock,  John. 281,  305,  346,  351,  367 

McClintock,  R.  N   333 

McConkey,  Rebecca   280 

McCrie,  Thomas   342 

McDonald,  W  282,  382 

McFadden,  Cornelia  363,  391 

McKeen,  Phoebe  F  344,  390 

McKeever,  Harriet  B...310,  346,  348,  360 

McLean,  John   318 

McOwan,  P   375 

McWhorter,  Alexander,   350 

Meade,  L.  T  355,  359 

Mears,  John  W  286,  318,  326,  384 

Mercein,  T.  F.  R   357 

Meredith,  Owen  346,  350.  807 

Merivale,  C  329,  385 

Merrill,  George  E  286,  384 

Merrill,  8.  M  284,  285,  299,  325 

Merritt,  T  300,  304 

Meseroy,  A   392 

Meunier,  V   277 

Miehaud,  Jos.  F  328 

Michelet,  Jules  289 

Middleton,  Meade   316 

Miley,  J  284,  302 

Miller,  Emily  H...286,  315,  373,  375,  386 
394,  403 

Miller,  Hugh    :!77 

Miller,  J.  R  398 

Miller,  MaryC  283,  364,  394 

Mills,  Lucy  A  335,  364 


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Milman,  Henry  Hart  327,  339,  403 

Milton,  John   363 

Mitchel,  O.  M  284,  367 

Mitchell,  Arthur  363 

Moffat,  J.  C.   303 

Mogridge,  Geo  323,  360 

Moister,  W   352 

Molesworth,  Mrs..321,  294,  301,  305,  388 

Monastier,  A   395 

Moncel,  Count  Du   389 

Montgomery,  Florence  353 

Montgomery,  H   343 

Moody,  C   358 

Moody,  Granville   367 

Moore,  Frank   280 

Moore,  Henry   316 

Moore,  Maude   381 

Moraine,  Paul   379 

More,  Hannah   402 

Morgan,  R.  C   304 

Morison,  J.  C   341 

Morley,  Henry   311 

Morley,  John  407 

Morris,  R   344 

Morris,  T.  A  355,  379 

Morris,  Wm   278 

Morrison,  A.  B   382 

Mosheim,  J.  L  301 

Motley,  J.  L  308,  329 

Mountford,  Wm  407 

Mowry,  S   283 

Mudge,  Z.  A...283,  291,  300,  316,  318,  332 
346,  359,  361,  366,  379,  400,  401 

Mulford,  Elisha  408 

Mulock,  Dinah  M   390 

Munger,  C   288 

Munsell,  O.  S   370 

Murphy,  Arthur   336 

Murphy,  Thos   363 

Murry,  A.  T   356 

Myers,  P.  V.  N   372 

Nadal,  Bernard  H  357 

Nast,  William  321,  333 

Ncander,  Aug   343 

Neely,  T.  B   405 

Nettleship,  H   302 

Nevin,  Alfred   363 

Nevins,  J.  L   298 

Newbury,  Mrs.  F.  E   302 

Newman,  J.  P   285 

Newman,  Mrs.  J.  P  307,  355 

Newstead,  Robert  277,  330 

Newton,  R.  H   401 

Newton,  Richard  337,  364,  371 

Newton,  Wm   379 

Newton,  W.  W  333,  344,  362,  399 

Nichol,  John   344 

Nichols,  G.  W   383 

Noble,  Annette  L  380,  382 

Nordhoff,  Chas   367 

Norris,  Mary  H   317 

Nott,  E   304 

Ober,  F.  A   294 

Olin,  Stephen  322,  340,  372 

Oliphant,  Mrs  317,  342 

Oliver,  Maria  360,  375 

Orton,  J  as  281,  303 


424 


INDEX  OF  AUTHORS. 


PAGE. 

Otheman,  Edw   300 

Owen,  Mrs.  O.  F  326 

Paddock,  Z  302 

Page,  H.  A  339 

Palev,  Wm  313,  355,  357 

Palffev,  F.  W   349 

Palmer,  E.  F  329 

Palmer,  E.  H   358 

Palmer,  W.  C  323 

Pansy  (See  Alden.  Mrs.  R.  G.)  

Pardee,  H.  C   294 

Parker,  Caroline  G   370 

Parker,  Joseph  277,  309,  363 

Parker,  Mrs   282 

Parloa,  Maria   315 

Parsons.  W.  1   286 

Pa-scal,  Blaise   390 

Paterson,  H.  Sinclair  326 

Patterson,  Robert  M  310,  363,  395 

Patton,  W.  W   368 

Paull,  II.  H.  B  279,  337 

Payne,  Mrs.  A.  M.  M...295,  359,  362,  373 

407 

Pearse,  Mark  Guy  306,  352,  393 

Pearson,  Emilv  C   322 

Peek,  Geo  300,  347,  351,  361,  364,  375 

Peck,  J.  T  301,  322,  399,  401 

Peile,  J   344 

Peirce,  B.  K  334,  393,  402,  405 

Perkins,  F.  B   287 

Pern-,  Alice   355 

Pern-,  Nora   287 

Phelps,  Mrs.  A.  L   283 

Phelps,  Austin   383 

Phelps,  Elizabeth  S....292.  318,  350,  377 
380,  393 

Phelps,  Miss  L,  L   395 

Phelps,  Mrs.  S.  B   380 

Phillips,  G.  8   280 

Phillips,  Philip   381 

Philpotts,  J.  8  337 

Piatt,  Mrs.  S.  M.  B   366 

Pike,  James  8   358 

Pike,  N   386 

Pindar,  Susan  Cooper  398 

Piper,  Ferd   345 

Pitman.  Emma  Raymond   407 

Pitman,  R.  C   279 

Pittingill,  J.  H  331 

Piatt,  8.  H   368 

Pollard,  Josephine  319 

Pollock.  Walter  II   358 

Poole,  Mrs.  L.  E   336 

Pope,  Wm.  Burt   390 

Porter,  Mrs.  A.  E  320,  356,  387,  390 

Porter,  Geo.  P   284 

Porter,  Jas.  ...296,  312,  327,  350,  351,  360 
373,  383 

Porter.  Xoah   310 

Porter,  Rose  ..295,  316,  334,  381,  386,  395 
400,  403 

Post,  Loretta  J   312 

Potts,  J.  H  351,  363 

Pouehet,  F.  A   395 

Powell,  F   285 

Powell,  T   282 

Power,  J.  H   308 

Power,  P.  B  388,  391 


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Poynter,  E.  J   284 

Pratt,  F.  L   278 

Prentiss,  Mrs.  E....285,  316,  320.  345,  364 
365,  383,  395 

Pressense",  Edmond  de  282,  301,  326 

335,  348,  372,  374 

Priestley,  J   300 

Prime,  E.  I).  G  283,  317 

Prime,  S.  1  279,  368,  393,  395 

Prime,  W.  C  291,  333,  389 

Pritchard,  Miss  S.  J  285,  374,  379 

Proctor,  R.  A..291,  316,  323,  325,  343,  355 
361,  362 

Prosser,  Mrs   301 

Proyost,  Katharine   348 

Punshon,  W.  M  339,  369,  375 

Putnam,  Miss  H.  A   392 

Quick,  R.  H  312 

Ramsey,  Mrs   312 

Rand,  Edw.  A. 279,  286,  316,  370,  375,  389 

Ram  ard,  L.  N   291 

Rawlinson,  Geo.. ..281,  327,  354,  361,  407 

Raw. son,  J   281 

Raybold,  G.  A  351 

Raymond,  Miner   388 

Reade,  T.  C   387 

Reid,  J.  M  352 

Remington,  E.  F   302 

Rice,  Jas   358 

Rice,  Wm   367 

Rich,  Anthony   307 

Richards,  C.  H   400 

Richardson,  AbbyS   314 

Richardson,  B.  W   389 

Richardson,  T.  F   280 

Richmond,  Mrs.  E.  J  308,  331,  394 

Richmond,  J.  F   307 

Richmond,  L   282 

Rideing,  W.  H  284,  384 

Ridgaway,  H.  B   341 

Ridley,  M.  L  361 

Ridpath,  J.  C   329 

Rigg,  J.  II   346 

Riggs,  Stephen  R   348 

Risher,  I).  W  334 

Ritten,  Carl   303 

Roberts,  J.  S   340 

Robertson,  F.  W  :332,  340,  378 

Robertson,  M.  M  334,  335,  394 

Robinson,  Geo.  C   378 

Robinson,  H.  M   322 

Robinson.  Mrs.  Mary  S   280 

Rogers,  Hester  Ann   373 

Rogers,  Mary  E  362 

Rollin,  H.  J   386 

Ropes,  Mary  E   315 

Rose,  A.  C   399 

Ros-s,  Mrs.  Ellen   308 

Round.  Wm.  M.  F   392 

Roussel,  M.   374 

Rousselet,  L   379 

Rule,  W.  H   293 

Rusk-in.  John  309,  375,  379,  393 

Russell,  Michael   359 

Russell,  Thomas   388 

Rutcr.  Martin   328 

Byle,  J.  C  292,  331 


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425 


Saintsbury  308 

Sampson,  S.  W   308 

Sandford,  P.  P   399 

Sargent,  Epos  305,  342 

Sargent,  G.  E   301 

Sargent,  G.  F   346 

Saunders,  F   313 

Saunders,  John  389 

Saxe,  John  G   367 

Searlett,  J   304 

Bchaff,  P  299,  364,  374 

Schiller,  F  379,  390 

Schweinfurth,  Geo   325 

Scott,  T.  J  352 

Scott,  Walter   388 

Seudder,  Horace  E  291,  308,  379,  384 

Scuddcr,  Mrs.  J  294 

Seebohm,  F  31-2 

Seeley,  J.  R   309 

Seelye,  J.  H  329 

Seiss,  Joseph  A  352,  396 

Sells,  Mrs.  S.  E   281 

Seward,  Wm.  H  392 

Sevvell,  E.  M  342,  358,  363,  369 

Shaffer,  H.  M   286 

Shairp,  J.  C  305,  367,  386 

Shaw,  Barnabas   381 

Shaw,  Jennie  R   357 

Shedd,  Mrs.  Julia  A  314 

Sheldon,  Amos   377 

Shepherd,  Dorothea  A  332 

Shepherd,  I.  J   287 

Sherman,  David  307,  357 

Shipton,  Anna  234,  346,  369,  370,  378 

387,  389,  397,  398 

Short,  J.  T  338,  359 

Sibee,  Marie   309 

Sidney,  E  316,  365 

Sidney,  Margaret  316,  323,  381 

Sigston,  Jas  :  292 

Simmons,  C   377 

Simmons,  M.  L   386 

Simpson,  Matthew  339,  351,  403 

Sims,  C.  N   309 

Sinclair,  Cath   330 

Skelton,  Henrietta  408 

Slaughter,  W.  B   354 

Slicer,  Adeline  E.  H  292 

Slicer,  H   286 

Slidell-Mackenzie,  Harriet  D   329 

Smiles,  S  309,  332,  341,  373,  378,  391 

Smith,  D  281,  315,  339,  346,  347,  363 

Smith,  Mrs.  F.  B  302,  349,  360 

Smith,  Geo  324,  325,  341,  364,  376 

Smith,  Geo.  B   341 

Smith,  Henry   335 

Smith,  H.  B   282 

Smith,  1   351 

Smith,  Moses  350 

Smith,  Newman   361 

Smith,  Philip  384,  385,  386 

Smith,  Mrs.  R   355 

Smith,  R.  B   354 

Smith,  S.  F  337,  356,  359,  384 

Smith,  Sidney   401 

Smith,  W.  C  365,  376,  380 

Smith,  W.  Robertson   408 

Smith,  W.  T   352 

Smith,  Wm  384,  385 


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Smucker,  S.  M  295,  349 

Sommers,  Jane  R   325 

Southey,  R   342 

Sparks,  W.  H  349 

Speke,  J.  H  336 

Spencer,  I.  S  363 

Spicer,  T  316 

Sprague,  W.  B   313 

Spring,  Gardiner   359 

Stalker,  Jas   299 

Stall,  S   332 

Stanford,  Chas  326 

Stanley,  A.  P..300,  329,  335,  378,  379.  391 

Stanley,  Edwin  J   371 

Stanley,  H.  M  278,  392 

Stanley,  J   367 

Stearns,  Winifred  A  357 

Steele,  Daniel  346,  352,  390 

Steele,  Eliza  R  381 

Stephens,  J.  L  392,  393 

Stevens,  Abel  285,  301,  307,  322,  347 

350,  351,  368,  381,  401 

Stevenson,  Sarah  H   292 

Stevenson,  Wm.  F  368 

Steward,  G  372 

Stokes,  H.  P  384 

Story,  J  304 

Stoughton,  John  326,  343 

Stowe,  Mrs.  H.  B  331,  360,  395 

Stretton,  Hesba  294,  286,  401 

Strickland,  Agnes  345,  384,  385 

Strickland,  W.  P...284,  289,  322,  327,  365 

Strong,  James  305,  321,  324 

Strong,  J.  D   297 

Strong,  Wm   372 

Sutcliffe,  J   300 

Swallow,  S.  C   294 

Sweetser,  M.  F  283 

Swift,  Maggie  369 

Swing,  David  302,  356 

Symonds,  J.  A   381 

Talmage,  T.  De  Witt  313,  360,  382 

Taneyhill,  Miss  Ellen   404 

Taine,  H.  A  311,  335 

Tarbox,  I.  N   335 

Taylor,  Alfred   364 

Taylor,  Bayard  .*...289,  367,  396 

Taylor,  Isaac   398 

Taylor,  Jeremy  330,  375 

Taylor,  T  305,  336,  348 

Taylor,  Wm   353 

Taylor,  Wm.  M....306,  310,  321,  326,  364 

Temple,  Crona   327 

Tennyson,  Alfred   367 

Tefft,  B.F  341,  382 

Thalheimer,  M.  E  281,  327 

Thatcher   334 

Thaxter,  Celia   280 

Thayer,  Mrs.  C.  M   372 

Thayer,  Wm.  M  321,  357,  365,  367 

Thieblin,  N.  L   381 

Thiers,  M.  A  328 

Tholuck,  A   331 

Thomas.  W   292 

Thompson,  Andrew   324 

Thompson,  Mrs.  E.  W   286 

Thompson,  Julia  C  341,  394 

Thompson,  Lewis  0  332,  368 


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Thompson,  &  A  <   300 

Thompson,  Richard  W   363 

Thompson,  Wm.  M   338 

Thomson,  J   347 

Thomson,  Bdw  .312,  313,  361,  381 

Tide,  C.  P   407 

Tonna,  (Charlotte  Elizabeth)... 304,  336 

Tourgee,  A.  W  293,  316 

Towle,  Geo.  M  286,  326 

Townlev,  James   289 

Townsend,  L.  T.  ..283,  300,  305,  315,  320 
333,  346,  371,  3S7,  390 

Townsend,  V.  F  310,  370,  389 

Tozer,  H.  F   344 

Trafton,  Mark   377 

Trail,  W   344 

Treffrv,  R  287,  368,  381 

Trench,  R.  C   370 

Tristram,  H.  B  338,  £57 

Trollope,  Anthony  301,  341 

Trollope,  T.  A   289 

True,  C.  K.  ...332,  336,  337,  341,  371,  390 

Trumbull,  H.  C   £53 

Tucker,  Janet   358 

Tullock,  John  286,  299 

Tupper,  Iff.  F   370 

Tuttle,  Joseph  F   398 

Tweedie,  W.  K  309,  373,  378 

Tyerman,  L  341,  342,  362 

Tyler,  Moses  Coit  407 

Tyndall,  John  314,  316,  325,  331.  340 

343,  381 

Upham,  Fraxcis  W  330,  383,  400 

Upham,  T.  C  .333,  341,  342 

U  rhino,  Mrs.  S.  R   369 

Urmy,  W.  S   337 

VAX  BUKEN,  J.  M   321 

Vance,  Clara  281,  384,  388 

Vandegrift,  Margaret   302 

Van  Lennep,  H.  J   288 

Van  Oosterzee,  J.  J   390 

Vansant,  X   371 

Vaughan,  Chas.  J  299,  404 

Vincent,  F  .338,  391 

Vincent,  J.  Ht  501,  387 

Vincent,  Iff.  R   313 

Waddington,  M.  A   328 

Waddy,  Edith   345 

Wagstaff,  F   339 

Wakelev,  J.  B  291,  Sal,  369,  398 

Walden,  Tread  well   361 

Walker,  Miss  A.  D   &55 

"Walker,  J  as.  B  330,  376 

Walker,  T.  H   278 

Wallace,  Alfred  R  334,  347 

Wallace,  Mrs.  E.  D   401 

Wallace,  Lew   287 

Waller,  H   278 

WaLshe,  Miss  E.  II  347 

Walton,  Mrs.  O.  F  301,  364,  397 

Ward,  Hetta  L.  II   306 

Ware,  Thomas   397 

Waring,  Geo.  E  291,  293,  396 

Warner,  Anna  291,  311,  340,  376 

Warner,  Charles  Dudley. ..285,  356,  400 

407 


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Warner,  Elizabeth  290 

Warner,  Susan   320 

Warner,  Susan  and  Anna   403 

Warren,  H.  W   380 

Warren,  Israel  P  296,  391 

Warren,  W.  H   371 

Waterton,  Chas   397 

Watson,  H.  C   294 

Watson,  J.  T  367 

Watson,  James  V  372,  388 

Watson,  Richard  304,  397,  398 

Watson,  Richard  (Bishop)  282,  397 

Waylland,  John  H   347 

Webb,  Mrs  280,  367 

Wells,  Jas   288 

WelLs,  J.  C.  (Att'y  at  Law)   395 

Wells,  Wm   326 

Went  worth,  E   324 

Weslev,  John  300,  308,  398,  399 

West,  R.  A   398 

Westcott,  Thompson  360 

Whatelv,  Mary  L  340 

Whately,  R   313 

Whedon,  D.  D  303,  399 

Wheeler,  Henry   351 

Wheeler,  J.  T   341 

Wheeler,  Mrs.  Mary  S   401 

"Whipple,  E.  P  344,  386 

White,  Andrew  D   397 

White,  James  310,  328 

White,  Lucy  Cecil   383 

White,  Lorenzo  322 

Whitgift,  A   305 

Whitmarsh,  Caroline  S   368 

Whitney,  Mrs.  A  D.  T..314,  318,  371,  386 

Whitney,  G.  H   288 

Whitney,  W.  J)   340 

Whittier,  John  G  297,  .336,  366 

Whvmper,  F  278,  377 

Wilberforce.  Bishop  S   298 

Wildermuth,  Ottilie   332 

Wiley,  Isaac  W  298,  372 

Wilkins,  A.  S   329 

Wilkinson,  W.  C  306,  408 

Willard,  Frances  E   358 

Willard,  Mary  E   392 

Willet,  I.  E   402 

Williams,  Charles   393 

Williams.  John   403 

Wiliing,  Jennie  F  295,  307,  361,  392 

Wilmer,  Margaret  E   369 

Wilson,  Andrew   277 

Wilson,  Mrs.  A.  M   345 

Wilson,  (Capt.)   371 

"Wilson,  Geo   316 

Wilson,  James  G   381 

Wilson,  J.  H   361 

WinehelL.  \lexander  313,  371,  381 

Winkworth,  C   300 

Winslow,  M.  E   378 

Winter,  Wm   393 

Winthrop,  A.  T   399 

Winton,  X.  W   308 

Wirt,  Wm   343 

Wise,  Daniel..295,  300,  320,  343,  362,  363 
364,  366,  376,  382,  386,  395,  400.  401 
404,  407 

Withrow,  W.  H   295 

Wolfe,  H.  J   362 


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Wood,  Charles   408 

Wood,  E.  M  350 

Wood,  E.  P  362 

Wood,  J.  A   364 

Wood,  J.  G  331,  333,  347,  357 

Woodbridge,  Miss  A.  E  407 

Woodworth,  Eliza   293 

Woolman.J   336 

Woolsey,  T.  D   325 

Worth,  Mrs.  L.  L   381 

Wright,;j.  F  370 

Wright,  Mrs.  J.  McN...279,  287,  358,  379 
399,  408 

Wright,  R.  W   341 

Wright,  W.  A  285 

Wultke,  A  299 

Wyatt,  W.  E  299 


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Wythe,  J.  H  278,  363,  377 

Yonge,  Chas.  D  406 

Yonge,  Charlotte  M....291,  344,  365,  369 
370,  383,  404 

Young,  Alexander   404 

Young, -Dan   306 

Young,  Edw   366 

Young,  Jacob   365 

Young,  John  299 

Young,  L.  H  372 

Young,  M.  C   338 

Young,  Robert  304, 333,  368 

Young,  Royal  303 

Ziethe,  W  281 


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